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...reject Krauthammer's claim that "never in American history has fear been a more appropriate feeling." The difference between the frightful times of the past, such as the U.S. Civil War, the Great Depression and the cold war years, and today's situation is that whenever it seemed as though fear should have overcome the American psyche, our resolve and courage rose up to beat it back. Fear is a victory for terrorists and the enemies of America. Adam Hobart Royal...
Bloom did not hesitate to refer to current political events at times throughout his reading, at one point spontaneously including “our current president” into a part of the introduction he read from which mentioned those who “reject what they know of Marx, Darwin, and Freud...
...waxed skeptical about what they see as a flawed document and an excessive display. Whereas Italy will ratify the constitution simply through parliamentary vote, which is expected to be unanimous, the United Kingdom, like France, will hold a popular referendum. It is quite possible that the British electorate will reject the document, which needs to unanimous acceptance by all 25 member states to gain validity...
...guard by assuming a system is fair when it might be stacked against them. Much of the Democrats' anger is focused on local Republican officials, whom they accuse of applying election laws in ways designed to limit Democratic turnout--like Ohio secretary of state Ken Blackwell, who tried to reject tens of thousands of new registrations because they weren't printed on heavy enough paper. Around Scranton, Pa., the new G.O.P. majority on the county commission voted in mid-October to move 23 polling places, all of them in heavily Democratic neighborhoods. The stated rationale was that some were...
...executive body. Commission President?designate José Manuel Dur?o Barroso had tapped Buttiglione for the Justice, Freedom and Security post, which includes responsibility for antidiscrimination and sexual equality measures as well as immigration. But Buttiglione enraged members of the European Parliament, who have the power to reject the Commission as a whole, when he referred to homosexuality as a sin and remarked that marriage was meant to provide women with "the right to have children and the protection of a man." A center-left majority in Parliament threatened to reject the Commission unless Buttiglione was sacked or reassigned. Barroso declined...