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Greece and the U.S. have lost great men to the unfair, cowardly attacks of terrorists over the past 25 years. And it is true that the police and various government officials have done little about it. But your reporter's hostile approach renders your point invalid. After all, Greece is a lot safer than the U.S. Innocent civilians are not under threat from 17 November attacks. In the U.S. one lives with a constant death threat from kids carrying deadly weapons, not to mention the country's alarming crime rates. SPYROS MICHAS Athens...
...flight home, tears instead of frustration and sadness. Not because of the hopelessness of the peace process, which is a legitimately difficult struggle that the country is bravely facing. Years of hatred do not quickly change into an era of love. But many of Israel's problems are completely invalid. Corruption dances through the government in a country theoretically founded on the values of justice and righteousness. Violence in the streets and poor education systems plague Israel just as they do many Western countries...
...students "associating or acting with or attending informal or social functions of an attached list of 'subversive' organizations." The petition was sponsored by The Crimson, the Young Republicans, the American Veterans Committee, the National Lawyers Guild, the Teachers Union and was sent to the administration. Harvard loyalty oath declared invalid--wording was wrong...
...America bureau chief Tim McGirk. "But Fujimori is in a real jam, because if he doesn't postpone the election in line with guidelines laid down by the OAS monitoring group with the support of the Clinton administration, he runs the risk that the election result will be declared invalid and force the OAS and Washington to impose sanctions on Peru...
Fried's constitutional arguments are that gender violence does not directly affect the national economy (thus VAWA is an invalid exercise of Congress lawmaking power under the Commerce Clause), and that Congress has no authority to use the 14th Amendment to regulate the behavior of individuals (because the 14th Amendment is designed to rein in states, not citizens). Both of these claims can be disproved with empirical evidence. Congress funded a four year fact-finding mission before passing VAWA, where it was determined that employers lose $3 billion a year to domestic violence as a result of workplace absenteeism. That...