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...than a hypothesis." Moreover, advocates of the teaching in U.S. schools of intelligent design - which holds that nature is so complex that it must be God's doing - should not count on any imminent Holy See document or papal pronouncement to help boost their cause. This weekend's private retreat is an annual gathering of the Pope's former theology students to freely discuss one topic of interest, without the aim of reaching any set conclusion...
...nuclear terror, a policy of appeasement could bring destruction of a kind never before seen on this earth." During the 2004 campaign, Bush and Vice President Cheney frequently invoked appeasement as well, saying that, as the President put it, "America is not to blame for terrorist hatred, and no retreat by America would appease them." And now, with support for withdrawal from Iraq growing, the Administration is suggesting that withdrawal would constitute appeasement of the terrorists - part of its long-term effort to link Iraq with al-Qaeda and the Sept. 11 attacks...
...Once the day was done—after I’d kicked the academic dust from my heels and trotted the rounds of activities—I liked to retreat into the privacy and comfort of my room, Thayer 414. But it was a shock to realize that this home, unlike my last, no longer promised privacy...
...Cindy Gabriel of the city's Joint Hurricane Housing Task Force says many evacuees attempted to return to New Orleans this summer, only to retreat upon finding services unable to reestablish them. To combat that, on August 21 a center was set up called Journey Home to provide evacuees with a sense of what is available back home...
...rights with the need to curb terrorism? There is every mechanism already available to the state to properly detect and detain and investigate. What is not just unacceptable, but plain wrong, is to say that a person suspected of terrorism deserves the rule book being torn up - basically a retreat to medieval rack and thumbscrew, and that's what Guantánamo is all about. Haven't the threats changed? These are simply not new problems. Every country has faced its challenges. Look at the way [James] Madison and [Thomas] Jefferson corresponded when they were trying to hammer out what...