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After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, most Americans were willing to concede small infringements on their civil liberties to ensure tighter national security. At the time, some liberal watchdogs warned that the Bush administration would take Americans’ fears as a mandate to run roughshod over rights in the name of protection. It appears they were right...
...normal run of statesmen who have held high office in the U.S. And the things that make this Administration different will contribute to a terrible war in the near future [Iraq, Oct. 21]. America is behaving like an imperial power, extending its economic and political hegemony and riding roughshod over any opponent who may get in its way. Bush doesn't care whether these organizations and nations have legitimate grounds to question his economic, political and strategic objectives. Such behavior cannot fail to promote war. And there will surely be a terrible war, not only for American service members...
Just as Venus and Serena Williams have aced women's tennis and Michael Schumacher is way out in front of the Formula One championship, a quiet 32-year-old Irishman is riding roughshod over British Isles flat racing. Aidan O'Brien's horses have such a record of winning big races that other trainers are now almost reluctant to put their charges up against them. When O'Brien entered his colt Hawk Wing in the prestigious Eclipse Stakes at Sandown, England, a week ago, with stablemate Sholokhov as his pacemaker, they faced only three other horses. Hawk Wing and Sholokhov...
...France won't have the luxury of the home field this time but neither will the other favored teams. And the French team has only got better since '98. It still features largely the same defense that ran roughshod over Brazil in the final plus a mature front line that has now been battle-tested in England's Premiership and Italy's Serie A. Fullbacks Marcel Desailly, Lilian Thuram and Bixente Lizarazu can pick up where they left off, augmented by Roma's superb left back Vincent Candela. They should make up for goalkeeper Fabian Barthez' propensity to lose...
...such as, say, the desire to prevent distress caused by hearing racial slurs). It would therefore seem appropriate for law students to question whether the statements were offensive enough to warrant proscription and punishment. That, in turn, requires considering each of the statements individually. But the condemnatory chorus rode roughshod over distinctions between them...