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...policy, the CCL is in effect stating that organizations (for example, the United States Armed Forces) should be able to say what qualifications their officers must have, regardless of whether or not we think those qualifications are discriminatory. Who then are we to say that the military would function as well as it does today if it had openly gay members? How can we keep ROTC off campus on the grounds that they discriminate while going out of our way to let HRCF do so? One might be tempted to say that it is a simple case of anti-military...
...Much of the (real or potential) tension facing missionaries, he says, arises out secular thinkers' and Christians' opposing views on religious conversion. "The secular world tends to look at Islam as a function of ethnicity," says Mohler, "which means seeking to convert these people to Christianity is an insult to them. But Christianity is a trans-ethnic faith, which understands that Christianity is not particular to or captured by any ethnicity, but seeks to reach all persons...
...Bush visited the marines at Camp Lejeune last week. He also visited the Coast Guard. The week before, he visited the Army; before that, the Navy. The speeches were pretty much the same: Saddam's finished, victory is assured, hurrah for our courageous troops. Cheerleading is a plausible presidential function, I suppose, but an odd thing has happened to Bush as the war has progressed. He has not grown in stature or gravitas, as wartime leaders usually do; he may have diminished. He seems imprisoned in a bleak, hortatory rhetoric of simple sentences and simpler ideas. Freedom good. Tyranny...
...When you've chosen your free tax filer and gone to an outside site, you can being filing. To work with a vendor site, you'll need to create a unique username and password, as this will function as your electronic signature on your return. The same username and password can be used in different years. Each site will ask for your personal information, your social security number and other relevant info. After that, you can begin the form, which in most cases consists of a number of easy-to-understand radio buttons and text boxes that make the cumbersome...
...person lost his ID 10 times? If such an especially forgetful student came along, Wamback says, the last digit would simply be reset, beginning again at zero. Despite the many absent-minded undergraduates who have come dangerously close to accumulating ten lost ID’s, this reset function has never actually been put to the test—Wamback says that the greatest number of times a student has ever lost his ID is 9 times in four years...