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...many Australians want more attention paid to issues such as the environment, processing of asylum-seekers and the Iraq war. But after pegging so much on it, Labor's message about Howard's truthfulness either wasn't believed or didn't matter. "There's no such thing as an honest politician, so it's not really an issue," says Arron Tomvald, a 33-year-old Liberal voter in Queensland's Longman. There will be questions, too, about Labor's campaign - from an unsuccessful candidate in Victoria, for one. Latham didn't make a single visit to his electorate, the candidate...
...Bush Administration about the reasons for the invasion of Iraq [Sept. 27]. And now our leadership is stubbornly adhering to a destructive course. Many Americans do not want our troops there. They are stuck in a quagmire largely of our government's making. There ought to be honest and compelling reasons for the risks to our service members and for the hardships imposed on their families and our communities. So far, the explanations given for the occupation of Iraq do not rise to that standard. JoAnn Sohl Palisades Park, New Jersey, U.S. The New U.S. Ally Your item about...
...verify whether someone is a high-risk individual, UHS officials may consult students’ medical records—“but in general people are very honest,” Rosenthal said...
Certainly, there should be room for friction, dissension and difference of opinion in an academic community—a University devoted to open and honest discourse is based on argument. And, certainly, one can expect some tension between a candidate and those who view him as a potential “spoiler” in an important election. But the kind of unimaginative and disrespectful proselytizing of the LaRouche supporters in question or the openly combative College Dems—not to mention Nader’s unimpressive and angry sensitivity to such taunting—is frustrating. The Forum...
...simple disoriented man in her presence,” Williams wrote in one particularly honest passage, “i wear my loincloth over my eyes and ejaculate too soon.” And in stirring renditions of the poem at the Paradise Rock Club and here at Harvard last year, Williams performed what amounted to a public emasculation. “The truth erupts from her core,” Williams cried, and his audience could only agree. Now, Saul Williams wants his penis back...