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...death toll, which may be as high as 6,000. Why is the government so afraid of an independent investigation into this matter? Because the Party knows its system is vulnerable, that its credibility is weak and that it has become a mafia whose only unifying ideology is to hold on to power. The truth about something as simple as why those students died in Sichuan could undermine its authority. To witness this vulnerability, you need only look at the soldiers and paramilitaries filling the streets of Beijing and the pages of mainland newspapers ahead of the Oct. 1 National...
...were destined to fight it the second we founded our country. The man who wrote the sentence of the Declaration that begins, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal," owned more than 100 human beings. It is, as the great historian Shelby Foote said, "the crossroads of our being...
...Harvard golfers, the rainy weather actually helped to keep scores lower. The greens at The Course are traditionally firm, but the rain softened things out, making for an easier hold...
...men’s and women’s teams demonstrated different strategies for topping their respective opponents, with the men employing clever tactics to barely hold off the Bulldogs, while the women simply strong-armed the competition...
...next week. Reid canceled a scheduled weeklong break so that the Senate could get down to work immediately after Columbus Day. He plans to begin with what one aide described as a "bed-check vote" on Oct. 13, which could be an early indication of his ability to hold his Democrats together against the threat of a filibuster; that first vote is expected to be on a routine parliamentary procedure, such as whether to proceed to the bill. The House has not announced whether it will begin deliberations at the same time or shortly thereafter. House leaders are anxious...