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Armies too are being mobilized. Jay Sekulow, chief counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice, a powerful conservative group based in Washington, plans to recruit Christian activists for the fight through his daily radio talk show, his weekly TV program and a massive database of followers. He will be telling people to flood Capitol Hill with telephone calls and messages of support for the President's nominee. Barely an hour after Bush announced the O'Connor resignation, Sekulow had sent an e-mail to 850,000 sympathetic souls. "We want people to prepare for a battle," he told...
...take up the issue earlier this year, the court may also one day consider state laws preventing gays and lesbians from adopting children. In the meantime, next term the court plans to rule on whether Congress can withhold money from universities that make it hard for the military to recruit on campus because they oppose its "Don't ask, don't tell" policy toward homosexuals...
When the Civil War broke out in April 1861, however, they had very different strategies for winning it. Douglass repeatedly urged Lincoln to free the slaves and recruit black soldiers. Douglass wanted to prevent the Confederacy from using slaves to grow the food that fed its army. "The negro is the stomach of the rebellion," he wrote. "Every slave who escapes from the Rebel States is a loss to the Rebellion and a gain to the Loyal Cause." He also understood that the quickest way for blacks to gain equal rights was to become Union soldiers...
...Number of new "web watchdogs" the Beijing government hopes to recruit, in addition to its current 40,000 observers, to screen China's cybercaf?s and Internet service providers...
...this is the only investment I've ever owned that has actually made me happy, regardless of whether it pays off financially. When I first visited the company last fall, I sat in on a grammar class and discovered what a godsend these call-center jobs are to new recruits. Asked to complete a sentence beginning "I wish ... ," a woman in her 20s cried as she confided that what she wished for most of all was to see her mother, who had worked abroad for the past two decades to support her children. Another recruit said he had just quit...