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...along with the Times. After the newspaper said it had no relevant documents to hand over and that Miller's notes--and the decision whether to turn them over--belonged to her alone, the court pursued only the subpoena against Miller. (The notes she gave up were redacted to omit discussions about anything other than Plame.) In the Cooper case, the prosecutor went after e-mails and other information stored on computers owned by Cooper's employer, Time Inc., which was subpoenaed and held in contempt when it refused to turn over the documents. That decision rested with Time...
...teachers who responded to a National Science Teachers Association online survey in March said they had felt pressured by parents and students to include lessons on intelligent design, creationism or other nonscientific alternatives to evolution in their science classes; 30% noted that they felt pressured to omit evolution or evolution-related topics from their curriculum...
...animals. A typical victim: the pangolin, a cute-as-a-button mammal, rather like an anteater, that is on the endangered list in Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand but has been winding up in American-made handbags and cowboy boots. The illicit traffic is covered up with sketchy documents that omit the country of origin...
Summers did omit two personal anecdotes that appeared in the prepared text of his speech. At one point, this made for a confusing reference back to a point he had not actually made...
...deeply admire the progressive religious figures who stand up to the fundamentalists and say “You are committing evil in God’s name” (and who always omit gender-specific pronouns in their prayer books). It’s those faithful people who ordain women, gays and lesbians, and express their respect and even love for those who believe differently. They will remind you that Osama bin Laden, George W. Bush, the IRA, Hamas, the settlers on the West Bank, even the Pope, are all perverting the true meaning of religion (in different ways...