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...decade later. “The 1741 conspiracy and the 1730s opposition party were two faces of the same coin,” Lepore explains in the book. “But one was very much more dangerous than the other.” White intellectual protest was one thing. This time, black slaves were allegedly plotting the murder of the white people. This was too much. And the government, still reeling from the Zenger trial and the vocal white opposition of the 1730s, responded with a ruthless repression of the city’s blacks...
...think that Iran should be referred anyway. It is time for the international community to show its backbone; merely settling for one more feeble protest and a wrist-slap will send Iran the message that if it continues to overtly protest that the international community is violating its sovereignty, it can resume covertly inching towards nuclear weaponization...
...Judge Roberts, I’m not talking about an issue. I’m talking about the essence of jurisprudence,” he said. But, when questioned during a break, Specter did not protest Roberts’ reticence...
...Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Lester Crawford announced on Aug. 26 that he was delaying a decision on the pill yet again to allow time for additional study and public comment. Assistant commissioner Susan Wood, who heads the FDA'S Office of Women's Health, last week resigned in protest, saying she could "no longer serve as staff when scientific and clinical evidence, fully evaluated and recommended for approval by the professional staff here, has been overruled." Wood was highly respected by others at the agency, and her concerns are shared by many. Says a colleague, "She just couldn't take...
...after 24 years in power, he finally conceded longstanding opposition demands to amend the constitution and permit a multiparty presidential election. Apart from growing pressure for internal reform from the Bush administration since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Mubarak was confronted with the birth of a protest movement last December known as Kiyafa, or Enough (as in, "We've had enough of Mubarak!"). He proposed the constitutional change two months later, days after Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice abruptly canceled a visit to Egypt in evident displeasure with another regime crackdown on opponents. Rice piled on the pressure again...