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...British student facing gloomy prospects, it was refreshing to hear such an accurate and level-headed analysis of the political situation in Britain, especially when MPs are so quick to naively dismiss the BNP's growing popularity as simply protest-voting to punish those whom we hold responsible for the recession. The article should remind MPs that BNP voters are not necessarily neo-Nazis or even racists. When Enoch Powell gave his "Rivers of Blood" speech in 1968 he was dismissed from the shadow cabinet; how apt that in 2009, his predictions should have been realized and his policies seized...
...death in 1991 for the murder of an off-duty cop, has long maintained his innocence. In the first decision of its kind in nearly 50 years, the U.S. Supreme Court is giving him a chance to prove it. The court ordered a federal judge in Georgia to hear new evidence in the case, including the fact that seven of nine key witnesses have recanted their original testimony. The ruling highlighted the Justices' divergent views on death-row appeals: "The substantial risk of putting an innocent man to death clearly provides an adequate justification" for a new hearing, wrote John...
...Ridge says he worries about a certain "complacency" about preparing the nation and preventing another attack that has set in on Capitol Hill and among the wider American public. "For several years, the public debate and discussion was about funding priorities and technology," says Ridge, "and I don't hear much of that. It just concerns me because there is still a lot of need...
...being smuggled." But he declined to comment on the theory of Israeli interception. "This is no longer a question for diplomats or for the military," he said. "It is now a question for the investigators, and they are carrying on with their work. We are also very curious to hear their findings." (See pictures of the face of modern piracy...
...last service - as two grandchildren paid sweet, informal tribute - a wind was rising, and lightning flashed in the distance. It is a solemn matter to carry a casket to the earth. Solemn indeed to hear Taps played in darkness broken by a dancing eternal flame. But this was Arlington, where some two dozen burials take place each day. Solemnity hangs over those hills like the atmosphere. Some of those many funerals are for white-haired old warriors, but not in Section 60, where the honored dead of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are marked in spreading ranks of white...