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...CROSSHAIRS With key Justices signaling early on that they think the Constitution protects a person's right to bear arms, the D.C. gun ban may fall. If so, the real question is how broadly the court will rule: you have the right to a handgun at home, but what about automatic or concealed weapons? Clarity on the issue may be an elusive target...
Their differences spill over into politics after the Revolution. Jefferson is leery of creating a strong Constitution that will effectively force the choices and values of his generation on Americans to come. Adams favors it--for exactly that reason. To him, it's human nature to revert to mob rule and injustice; if his generation is lucky enough to get the rules right for once, they should damn well be cemented so that later generations can't screw them up. "You have a disconcerting lack of faith in your fellow man," Jefferson chides. "And you," Adams retorts, "display a disturbing...
...Friday, meanwhile, like many of the other most important Christian holidays, is a set number of days before Easter. The only problem is that the date of Easter is probably the most complicated celebratory calculation this side of Hinduism, which has a number of competing religious calendars. The standard rule is "the Sunday after the first full moon on or after the day of the vernal equinox." But in fact, the actual divination of the date is so involved that it has its own offical name: "computus." And so challenging that Carl Friedrich Gauss, one of history's greatest mathematicians...
...away from all those horrible [threats]. In fact, when I was in the building and I walked out, I used some of the things we learned in Iraq during the war with Iran to kind of be safe. Everyone was running in the middle of the street. Rule number one when I was in Iraq is that you get next to the wall because that will minimize your chance [of getting hit by debris]. If you're in the middle of the street, you can get hit from anywhere. I couldn't call my family because my phone stopped working...
...rather weak and panicked leaders - meaning the highest ranking members of the Bush administration - decided to pursue a policy of torture and illegal detention, which ended up not only damning us with bad intelligence, but also corrupting our rule of law. So in that sense, it's not purely an "Iraq" film. It's a film that journeys from Afghanistan to Abu Ghraib in Iraq to Guantanamo to the White House. What the film does is show how [those abuses] were not the result...