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...groups like the Zealots, a militant nationalist group, and the Essenes. The Essenes detested the Temple priests, lived in monastic communities and may have been authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the treasure trove of texts uncovered in the Judean desert in 1947. Josephus assigns the Essenes a membership of 4,000, only 2,000 fewer than his count of Pharisees...
...nearly two years, HSAS has been protesting Harvard's membership in the Fair Labor Association (FLA), a consortium founded by manufacturing companies such as Nike to monitor working conditions in foreign factories...
...federal courts agree with me. Although the government monitors membership in organizations like the Ku Klux Klan and subscription to magazines like Southern Partisan because of the clear connection between hate speech and hate crime, the courts do not extend such regulation to pornography subscribers. They have not held that there is a connection between the “art” in works such as “Chester the Molester” and harmful action. The judiciary’s position hasn’t changed even after it turned out that the cartoonist who created...
...plans, know they haven't been able to come up with anything better themselves. They find themselves, in other words, in a singularly bad position to complain. AAA, the nation's largest travel organization, took a poll earlier this year and found that nearly 90 percent of their membership would be willing to pay more for airline tickets if it would help alleviate delays. Everyone, it seems, has collected a nightmare airline story in the past two years. And we all may be ready to shell out a bit more money for a little peace of mind...
...good at it, too. The tiny lobby group Business for Sterling, of which he is campaign director, has repeatedly derailed Labour's fearsome public relations machine in its efforts to make euro membership look desirable and inevitable. Polls show that two-thirds of British voters now want to retain the pound...