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...popular Boston-based television program, “The Practice,” the actress Linda Hunt played the part of a strong-willed judge who was not afraid to reject the grand speeches of the charming, blue-eyed Bobby O’Donnell...
Others, however, feel disenfranchized by the disappearance of their alma mater and reject the Institute as a viable replacement for Radcliffe College...
...panel’s decision to reject needed limits on political spending goes against judicial precedent and common sense. The First Amendment was drafted to protect the right of the powerless to say things that the powerful didn’t want to hear. It would be a cruel irony if the amendment were now used to protect the power of the wealthy against the vast majority of Americans who can’t afford to “speak” through seven-figure checks...
...idea. For one thing, the support of the neighborhood would limit the demands that the French and Russians might make. (An immediate Six-Plus-Two request to lift the U.N. economic sanctions against Iraq and start the oil flowing would certainly be harder to reject than a U.S.-British resolution...
...Asked about efforts to organize Shiite clerics to play a political role in the post-Saddam situation, Muqtada replied: "I reject all the Hawza that has relations with America and I reject everyone from the Hawza who is involved in politics. Anyone who seeks to be involved in politics should join hands with America." At the same time, however, Muqtada al-Sadr is promoting the involvement of clerics in public affairs, as against the more apolitical role for the imams envisaged by Sistani and others at Najaf, and urging that women be veiled and alcohol be banned throughout Iraq...