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...words. The lawsuit took effect one day before the first HLS reunion of gay, bisexual, lesbian and transgendered alumni, at which Kagan issued her statement in support of gay rights in the military. The disconnect between Harvard’s internal and external faces is a cause of grave concern. The Law School’s visibility is all the more reason for it to assume a leadership role and to take a principled stance on this issue. HLS should join the suit to regain its distinction as a fierce promoter of equal rights...
...Kelly's public exposure - after admitting to his managers that he had talked to BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan - had caused "the severe loss of self-esteem ... from feeling that [his employers] had lost trust in him." But whatever Hutton can deduce about the anguish that Kelly took to his grave, the millions of words in testimony, documents and e-mails he received in evidence - and instantly put on his website - have painted a gripping picture of political hardball, blame shifting and bad judgment inside Tony Blair's government and the BBC. Heroes were in short supply. Gilligan defended the basic...
...case for going to war without delay was always couched in terms of Iraq being "a grave and gathering danger," and so far, reports suggest, Kay's group has not, thus far, come up with the goods to support that case. Which means that his preliminary report comes at a bad time for the White House and 10 Downing Street. Just this week, polls find President Bush's domestic approval ratings at an all-time low of 49 percent, while his administration faces increasing difficulty in convincing his electorate and legislature to underwrite his commitments of American life and treasure...
...Military preemption must be a part of the U.S. arsenal, but only when danger is grave and imminent, or else it will result in unexpected casualties, costs, and consequences, as have seen in Iraq,” Perry said...
...bombing in 1968. The 10 girls famously refused to let the hardship of war ruin their looks, washing their hair with paste from bo ket seeds and sharing combs and mirrors. If they were American, there would have been a TV series based on them. On each grave, there is a photo of a smiling girl wearing her battle helmet. Pilgrims have left offerings of plastic combs and compacts. Mr. Truong buys incense sticks and invites us to plant them at the graves...