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Bush’s policy of being soft on torture, for instance, rather undercuts our moral authority. The White House endeared America to no one but the world’s sadistic dictators when in December it pressed Congressional leaders to repeal restrictions on the use of torture by the CIA. And the Attorney General nomination of Alberto Gonzalez—who has called the Geneva conventions “quaint” and said that our laws against torture don’t apply to all “aliens overseas”—didn?...
THOMAS MENINO, mayor of Boston, to a group of Native Americans in a ceremony at which he formally requested repeal of the 1675 Indian Imprisonment Act, which authorized the arrest of any Indian found within the city limits of Boston...
Opponents of the corridor range from environmentalists (the Sierra Club has called it "evil") to the Texas Republican Party, which has urged the legislature to repeal it. Texas, which is losing more land to sprawl than any other state, would need more than 9,000 sq. mi. of right-of-way for the corridors, affecting critical wetlands and pristine prairie lands. The Big Thicket National Preserve, considered "the biological crossroads of North America" for its mix of habitats, was put on the list of most-endangered parks by the National Parks Conservation Association this year, in part because...
Congress must, of course, repeal the offensive parts of this amendment immediately. Whatever marginal advantage the Byrd amendment might conceivably have given steel companies will clearly be outweighed by the $150 million of punitive tariffs that other countries will soon impose on American goods. Manufacturers in otherwise successful industries do not need such an insult from law-makers...
SCHOOLS Washington approved a measure (backed by teachers) to repeal a law creating charter schools...