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...strongly worded dissent, Justice Mary Fairhurst called the majority's opinion "blatant discrimination." She argued that denying marriage rights to same-sex couples in no way helps heterosexual couples raise their children, as the majority opinion suggested. "There is no rational basis for denying same-sex couples the right to marry," Fairhurst wrote...
...TIME: What is your opinion of how the U.S. and international community responded to the crisis...
...influence events in a region where those regimes and organizations represent a significant force. As Rami Khouri, editor at large of Beirut's Daily Star, so tartly put it: "Washington is engaged almost exclusively with Arab governments whose influence with Syria is virtually nonexistent, whose credibility with Arab public opinion is zero, whose own legitimacy at home is increasingly challenged, and whose pro-U.S. policies tend to promote the growth of those militant Islamist movements that now lead the battle against American and Israeli policies. Is Rice traveling to a new Middle East, or to a diplomatic Disneyland...
...dictate to the rest of the world. Owen Hollifield Cardiff, Wales Felling the Gentle Giants I was distressed to read "Revenge of the whale hunters" [July 3]. Norway's flouting of the International Whaling Commission rules is particularly offensive because it bespeaks the whalers' pleasure in defying international opinion. This summer a group of tourists who had gone to Norway on a whale safari - to see and photograph the magnificent animals, not shoot them - were horrified to see a whale harpooned before their eyes. That bloody scene was followed by the grisly sight of the butchering of a carcass...
...chaos and violence in Iraq. These officials say that the loss of goodwill because of Iraq's instability, coupled with the unstinting support for Israel, have moved many Arabs to admire Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah as a David confronting a Western Goliath. This movement in Arab popular opinion, American officials say, has not been lost on the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan, who are now said to be deeply concerned about the growing opposition movement fired with a combustible mix of extremist religion, rabid nationalism and class and sectarian divisions...