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...agree with the Iowa writing instructor, Mary Nilsen, who said she "misses the country we were during those weeks" following Sept. 11. We were more patriotic, we loved one another more, and President Bush and Mayor Giuliani were everyone's heroes. Now Giuliani is off the stage completely, and the President is busy trying to decide whether to attack Iraq. We have learned a lot, but we have much more to learn. AMANDA ROY Houston
When a local group in Santa Cruz, Calif., distributed medical marijuana to sick patients in front of city hall two weeks ago as the mayor looked on, it conjured up images of Woodstock, not of present-day America. But the event, to protest the federal government’s arrest of two local cannabis growers, is an encouraging sign of marijuana’s growing acceptance. The federal government ought to respect states’ decisions about marijuana, rather than blindly enforcing federal statutes...
...economy. The most recent ABC News/MONEY magazine poll shows that 67% of Americans think the economy's condition is "not good" or "poor." For the Iowa congressional seat held by the head of the House Budget Committee, Jim Nussle, Democrat Ann Hutchinson is running on her fiscal record as mayor of Bettendorf. She may have come up with a winning strategy for Democrats: talk up economic issues, and make the case that there needs to be a counterbalance to Bush. "Everyone supports him in the war on terrorism, but we need to be thinking about our economic security," she says...
...Djindjic, one of the founders of the Democratic Party in Serbia and the first democratically elected mayor of Belgrade, offered an optimistic assessment of his country’s prospects...
...last May's vote. Even Fortuyn's bitterest opponents acknowledged - especially after his death - that he'd latched on to real disenchantment. Nowhere is this harsher approach more evident than in the treatment of foreigners, and it is by no means just the LPF advocating it. Rotterdam's mayor, Ivo Opstelten of the VVD, has cracked down particularly hard in the blighted western part of his city, where many housing projects are inhabited solely by immigrant families. There police can search people without restriction; drug addicts from elsewhere found cruising the neighborhood can be arrested and forced into detox programs...