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...most other western lands, finds no moral problem in the H-bomb that was not present in the Abomb, none in the A-bomb that was not present in the mass bombing of cities, none in these that is not present in war itself, and no grave problems in war that are not present in the basic question of the permissibility of force in any circumstance. This does not mean that the traditional morality does not meet a host of appalling questions in the whole area of when and how force may be morally used. It does. But it meets...
McCarthy, 61, a historian who wrote a book on British power in 19th century West Africa, had spoken of retiring as early as this spring. She had privately expressed grave doubts about how the CIA and the Bush Administration handled Iraq and terrorism. In 2004 she gave $2,000 to the presidential campaign of Senator John Kerry as well as $5,000 to the Democratic Party in the swing state of Ohio...
...very Andersonian response: "Maybe it was alphabetical." With characteristic restraint, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover said the columnist was "lower than the regurgitated filth of vultures." But Anderson has now performed a feat of Mau-Mauing perhaps unique among all muckrakers: he is irritating the government from the grave. You see, Anderson died four months...
...about the extreme things your son said in court? It was atrocious. I plugged my ears and closed my eyes. I felt terrible for the people who lost their loved ones in the attacks. It also proved a personal blow to me: I could see him digging his own grave each time he said such things. It was hard to look at him afterward...
...opinion polls have shown growing sympathy for Khodorkovsky even among sections of the public that had previously dismissed him simply as another unscrupulous oligarch. "The Kremlin fears that Khodorkovsky will emerge from prison to unite left and right democratic opposition groups," Kondaurov speculates. If so, Khodorkovsky may be in grave danger: "He'll either walk out of the camp as the winner," says Kondaurov, "or they'll carry him out feet first...