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After six months of deliberation, a panel of 32 French lawmakers netted just enough votes to submit a report to Parliament recommending a ban on full-facial veils in certain public institutions. Originally a proposal had been made to pass a law prohibiting the coverings anywhere in public. But after a long and divisive debate, legislators were able to agree only on a ban in government offices, in public hospitals and on mass transit. Parliament will now decide whether any such law should be passed, although it's not expected to act until March...
Call it a Super Bowl weekend upset or proof of the law of diminishing returns - or even the triumph of one love story over another. Whatever the explanation, Dear John, a young-adult weepie based on a novel by The Notebook's Nicholas Sparks, dethroned Avatar as king of the domestic box office, according to early studio estimates. The clear victory - $32.4 million for Dear John to the sci-fi eco-epic's $23.6 million - ends Avatar's weekend winning streak at seven. James Cameron's previous smash, Titanic, reigned for an astounding 16 consecutive weeks, from its opening...
...tell you: "the government works against you, not for you." The Haitian government has tried to show some positive signs of life. There have been several distributions led by Haitian police officers dressed in khaki uniforms with official Haitian patches embroidered on their sleeves. But the presence of the law does not translate into order. One distribution site at the makeshift camps of the Place du Champ de Mars quickly erupted into a frenzy, with government workers throwing bags of rice into the crowds. (Watch "What Is Slowing the Relief Effort in Haiti...
...important questions as to its implementation. For instance, the current discriminatory policy cannot merely be abolished. It must be abolished in conjunction with the establishment of a cultural and education program that will ensure that any current military prejudice is removed from more than just the annals of federal law. It is one thing to make a nominal change and another to make a real one. To prevent the persistence of vestigial homophobia, soldiers at all levels and of all genders must be encouraged to participate in conversations about the meaning of sexual orientation in the private and public aspects...
...most importantly, erasing DADT from federal law will do much to allow homosexual soldiers—and homosexuals in general—to be viewed in the heroic and patriotic light they deserve as dutiful American citizens...