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...become clear what the defense strategy is. Its interest is not the investigation of racial bias, but the effective use of the race card as a gag and a restraint on public opinion no less than on public officials. The true strategy, it is now apparent, is to simply demolish public support for the prosecution by destroying the reputations of each and every individual police officer brought before the court. Breaking legal rules with a sense of impunity and seeking to humiliate public opinion into acquiescence is not a very lofty standard for the American institution of due process. Rather...
COLOR PHOTO: PHOTOFEST SIGHT GAG Gilligan the punch line [headshot of Bob Denver as Gilligan...
...those who do not agree? John Paul's most recent encyclical, Veritatis splendor -- The Splendor of Truth -- makes it clear that clerics and theologians are bound to a "loyal assent." He has imposed the equivalent of ecclesiastical gag orders on those who, he feels, have challenged church teaching, including Kung, American moral theologian Charles Curran and Brazil's Leonardo Boff, an exponent of Liberation Theology...
Ouch. Like, gag me with a short-handed goal...
From his very first day in office, Clinton has worked to promote freedom of choice for women. He repealed the "gag rule" that restricted abortion counseling at federally funded family planning clinics. The Republicans have threatened to reinstate the "gag rule" in their "Contract with American." The president repealed the Mexico City policy that banned funding to international organizations that promoted comprehensive family planning, and signed the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act to ensure that women and their doctors can enter clinics without fearing intimidation and violence. And the Department of Health and Human Services, headed by Secretary...