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...title of your Dec. 14 issue, "It's His War Now," demonstrates a problem with modern media. While our young men and women are suffering physical and emotional calamities overseas, the talking heads and magazine editors remain obsessed with declaring winners and handicapping horse races. We are a nation at war, and this war, like all others, does not belong to one man. Mike Keller Tampa...
Kolloen then apologized for having “underestimated the talent of the one decent player you’ve had since the Truman Admistation.” We think that Lin, who was named a Midseason Top 30 Candidate for the John R. Wooden Award (the highest national honor for college basketball) and a finalist for the Bob Cousy Award (which recognizes the nation's top point guard), is a bit more than just a "decent" player. In the Seattle game, he put up 21 points, 4 steals, 2 rebounds, and 3 assists...
...adoption of Proposition 8, California has from its inception always limited marriage to the union of a man and a woman," wrote Charles Cooper, who served in the Reagan Administration's Justice Department with Olson, in his trial brief Dec. 7. "Indeed, until this decade, every State, nation and civilized society in every period of history had always limited marriage to opposite-sex relationships ... Contrary to Plaintiffs' contentions, the traditional definition of marriage does not reflect animus against gays and lesbians - in California or anywhere else." (See more about gay marriage...
...join the dots of available information." Advocates of civil liberties agree. Simon Davies, director of the London-based human-rights watchdog Privacy International, describes the scanners as a "fashionable and unproven technology" and an "assault on the essential dignity of passengers that citizens in a free nation should not have to tolerate." (See the top 10 scandals...
...ecological crisis." The accident mirrors a 2005 explosion that released 100 tons of toxic benzene into the Songhua river in northeastern China, tainting the water supply for several million residents of the city of Harbin. While that disaster helped sparked new public awareness of the extent of the nation's water pollution, the lessons of 2005 are still being painfully relearned today.(See pictures of the world's most polluted places...