Word: reconsideration
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Since Sept. 11, the State Department has issued hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts to security companies like Blackwater to augment its own, internal Diplomatic Security office that protects U.S. diplomats overseas. What was viewed as a short-term need has extended into a six-year investment. When asked...
Last year, Planned Parenthood provided birth control to about 2.5 million patients nationwide. The group says abortions accounted for 3% of its services nationally last year. Elsewhere in the country, abortion opponents have opened so-called crisis pregnancy centers, often next to Planned Parenthood clinics, to persuade women headed for...
Human Rights. The Chinese government wants to keep political activists from spoiling its Olympic party. But if recent days are any precursor of what will come next year, Beijing won't have its way. An aide to Steven Spielberg told ABC News last month that the producer would reconsider his...
I took the moment to absorb my surroundings: The white-painted mud walls and floors, low ceilings, and dirt forced me to reconsider my mental image of a sumptuously decorated and immaculate king’s castle. The building’s only regal element, to my American mind, was...
The Rudy Giuliani campaign has cited scheduling conflicts in saying it will skip the Republican version of this week's Democratic debate, while Mitt Romney has mocked the seriousness of the questions and also seems likely to withdraw. John McCain, one of two candidates who had agreed to participate (Ron...