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...Ruini has skillfully used the political stage to steer the Italian public closer to the Church's teachings. In 1974 and 1981, Italian citizens voted in referendums to legalize divorce and abortion respectively. But in June, the public failed to ratify a proposal that would have overturned Italy's restrictive laws on assisted fertility and stem-cell research. Politicians of all stripes acknowledge Ruini as the architect of that victory, thanks to a strategy that simply called for Italians to stay home. The measure attracted a voter turnout of 25.9%, far below the 50% required for a binding result...
...network of "black sites" were set up to avoid the scrutiny of U.S. courts. Some of this can be explained as a natural reaction to the trauma following the attacks on New York City and Washington. But with Cheney himself lobbying to exclude the cia from future restrictions on torture abroad, excuses about the special nature of that time ring hollow. The irony is that the controversy Washington has unleashed by its conduct threatens to undermine real achievements in the struggle against terror. A case in point is rendition. That's a practice that involves the transfer of a terror...
...Christianity and Morality in American Literature,” and a number of the school’s science courses. Calvary and the ACSI charge that refusing to count these course amounts to penalizing students for taking Christian-themed classes. Ultimately, they worry that the UC’s restrictions will chill speech at private Christian schools, forcing them to secularize in order to provide an “acceptable” education. There can be no question that maintaining free speech in the academy is essential to promoting the open discourse that is fundamental to American society...
When economic growth slows down and powerful unions restrict access to low-skilled jobs, the groups in society most likely to get hurt are the poor and the marginalized. By refusing to recognize religious and ethnic diversity as an integral party of the new French nation, the government has only helped establish an atmosphere of distrust and fear. Instead of broadening economic opportunities, the French leadership has dragged its feet on economic reform and failed to broaden and deepen the common political and economic union across the continent...
...future of military recruitment at Harvard Law School. But even if Alito wins Senate approval, he might not join the court in time to cast a vote on the high-profile case regarding the Solomon Amendment, the 1994 law that allows the Pentagon to cut funds to universities that restrict military recruitment on campus...