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JASON BALL, student-trustee at California's Orange Coast College, who backed a successful motion to ban the Pledge of Allegiance from student-government meetings because it is "divisive," encourages nationalism and offends atheists...
...Willy Brandt, in charge of Brandt's schedule and relations with his own party. Brandt was trying to calm the Cold War and reconcile the two Germanys through his "Ostpolitik," which Guillaume's reports confirmed as a genuine shift in policy. To keep Brandt from losing a no-confidence motion, Wolf paid 50,000 marks to a corrupt West German deputy to switch his vote. But all the while, Guillaume continued to vacuum up secrets to transmit back to Wolf. He was ultimately unmasked, and Brandt, disgraced, had to quit. Wolf later agreed this result was "equivalent to kicking...
...turn into a fight abated. Brawlers fly out of swimming pools, piñatas are thrown into trees, and the cake smeared all over poor Lovefoxxx’s face is put back on the serving plate. Wounds are healed and hairdos recoiffed through liberal usage of stop-motion footage. Everyone gets de-uglified. Even with all of the mangled faces, there’s still something inherently cute, hip, irreverent and mildly clever about the video. The random cuts to a cat with mismatched eyes are more precious than petrifying. The use of split-screen technique evokes...
...real significance. If it is solely an evolutionary convenience, there is really no such thing as good or evil. But for me, it is much more than that. The moral law is a reason to think of God as plausible--not just a God who sets the universe in motion but a God who cares about human beings, because we seem uniquely amongst creatures on the planet to have this far-developed sense of morality. What you've said implies that outside of the human mind, tuned by evolutionary processes, good and evil have no meaning. Do you agree with...
...state fund. Three presidential aides were also charged, and Chen himself was listed as an accomplice and could face charges upon leaving office, when he loses presidential immunity. Amid renewed demonstrations against Chen in Taipei, Ma Ying-jeou, head of the opposition Kuomintang (KMT), vowed a third recall motion if the President did not step down within two days...