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Alabama Attorney General Bill Pryor declared last Friday at Harvard Law School that he put his public office above his religion in the national controversy surrounding a Ten Commandments monument in an Alabama courthouse...
...District Judge Myron Thompson held last year that the presence of the 2.6-ton granite monument in the rotunda of Alabama’s state judicial building was an unconstitutional endorsement of religion and must be removed. Roy Moore, then the chief justice of the Alabama supreme court, refused to comply with Thompson’s order...
...might be equally effective, like electronic tagging and intensive surveillance, or giving prosecutors more tools to convict terrorists in open court, like admitting wiretap evidence. Many think Blunkett is already planning to retreat to this safer ground. Outside the courthouse where Mzoudi was acquitted stands a slate-gray stone monument inscribed simply, "1933." A nearby plaque remembers those "abused, killed and treated with contempt by the judges and prosecutors" of Hamburg during the Third Reich. It is a reminder that the law can destroy as well as protect, and that even in the age of terror, the best defense...
...place, commitments to NASA's 15 international partners certainly do. And while the station thrives, so too must the three living shuttles, since they exist largely to ferry up parts and crews. "The space station is a failed dream of the '60s and '70s," says Murray. "It's a monument to the past, as is the shuttle...
...question as to which side he wanted to win. This was not a mere expression of pique. When the existential enemy was Nazism or communism, the world rallied to the American protector. But Arab-Islamic radicalism is different. Its hatreds are wide, but its strategic focus is America. Its monument is ground zero. Ground zero is not in Paris...