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...they are even thinner if cultural context is disregarded. Far in the future there might be a point in which homosexuality can find some immunity within Islam. Indeed, Islam has a tradition of moral universalism which predates most Western discourse on human rights.For now, if the issue at hand truly is consensus on a universal set of liberties and immunities for the spiritual and material well-being of Mr. Diadji Douifi and his colleagues, then we must move away from supracultural abstraction and blunt application of the language of individual rights, and toward an intercultural, intracultural, and ultimately more democratic...
...crucial factor is that Minnesota already had an election law in place to handle close elections, which mandated a hand recount in contests with a margin of victory smaller than 0.5 percent. Coleman’s razor-thin 0.0075 percent margin of victory over Franken in November failed to meet the cutoff, automatically triggering the recount. Unlike the Florida presidential election in 2000, during which Gore had to fight in court to get a recount, in this case there was no question of whether a recount was in order...
Equally important is the fact that Minnesota’s voting machines leave a clean paper trail, which allowed the recount to take place. If, for instance, Georgia’s recent senatorial runoff election resulted in a similarly small margin, there would have been no possible hand recount. Georgia’s electronic voting machines are paperless—electronic machines typically don’t allow for a hand recount to double check the electronic tally. In contrast, every Minnesota voter marked a paper ballot. This allowed officials to go back and at least try to discern...
...take his first look at key questions, he'd call on a bunch of old, retired officers who he happened to know in his former life to study things that were the clear responsibility of the uniformed services, and it was just a disaster." - On how not to hand off military command from one Administration to the next (September 19, 2008 interview with Time...
...candidate. He forced it on me," she says, scowling at her husband, Sheikh Hamid al-Hais, who heads one of the largest tribal-based political parties in Iraq's desert Anbar province. "I don't even know what number I am on the list. Ask him." She flicks her hand in his direction...