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...margin an initiative to replace it. The vote means the state will remain the only one to continue flying a flag that contains symbols of the Confederacy. But unlike in South Carolina, which eventually stopped flying the flag over the statehouse amid threats of economic sanction, Mississippi isn't expected to suffer much more financial hardship over the decision than it already does as the Union's poorest state. Still, supporters were disappointed...
...watch an execution if they choose - it's just the sheer number of victims in this scenario that presents a problem. But while many agree with the request in theory, the situation still presents U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft with something of an ethical conundrum: Will the U.S. government sanction the broadcast (albeit private) of an execution...
...fact, the Koran contains no injunction to destroy the images of other faiths. It does forbid depicting the Prophet: it is not an iconic religion. But none of the teachings of Islamic faith give sanction to what the Taliban are up to. "The terrible irony," says Philippe de Montebello, director of New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, "is that Islam is essentially a tolerant faith--much more so than Christianity used to be." If there is practically no medieval art left intact in England, for instance, it is because the godly minions of Oliver Cromwell--ancestors...
...There actually aren't very many cases where alcohol is an explicit part of the basis for an Ad Board sanction--less than two dozen per year," he writes in an e-mail...
...raising and his aggressive cultivation of Senate Judiciary chairman Orrin Hatch and other key Republican leaders. Freeh and his circle made no secret of their active antipathy toward Bill Clinton personally and the Clinton White House. Yet, for the incoming administration, Freeh, as a Clinton appointee , retained Democratic party sanction that could lend a patina of bipartisanship to the Bush national security team...