Word: objections
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It’s hard to believe that pre-law students at one of the most prestigious universities in the world would object to letting a war hero like James W. Gilchrist speak at their campus about the “Minutemen” and their position on immigration reform (“Anti-Illegal Alien Speaker Banned,” News, Oct. 19). Gilchrist is a Purple Heart veteran who nearly died protecting these insecure future lawyers’ right to speak. It is a sad day in America when those who typically advocate free speech want to silence...
...Certainly, breaking out the doctors' reimbursement issue from the broader health-care effort is removing a major expense, and headache, from an already very complicated process. But opponents of the fix aren't entirely consistent in their demand for fiscal discipline. Kyl, for one, doesn't object to running up the deficit to pay for a fix - he's working on an amendment to increase physicians' payments to keep up with the cost of living - he just doesn't like it in the context of a larger reform bill...
...personally object to such an idea,” said Ivan Bochkov, who was born in Moscow. “Weather over there is brutal–it causes a huge mess for traffic and pedestrians–but it would be a huge waste of resources to implement in Cambridge...
Google Wave rips up that paradigm and embraces the power of the networked, collaborative, postpaper world. Waves aren't static; they're active and malleable. When you send out a wave, you create a virtual object shared by you and the person or people you send it to. You can type in it, and so can everybody else who's on the wave - it's stored on a central server instead of passed from PC to PC like e-mail. Everybody sees what everybody else is typing as they type it. Everybody can edit what everybody else writes. With regular...
...House faith-based office, and John Carr, executive director of the USCCB's Department of Justice, Peace and Human Development. Both sides characterize the encounter as cordial and felt there was room for agreement on the main Catholic priorities: providing conscience protections for health-care workers and institutions that object to abortion; guaranteeing that abortion coverage was not mandated; and preventing federal funding of abortion...