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...Bush Administration's decision to use severe physical-interrogation techniques. A similar apathy was the response to the excesses of the Patriot Act, the question of immigrant rights, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's ineptness and arrogance, the need for affordable health insurance and, most tragic, the endless slaughter in Iraq. There is no outrage because pollsters tell us our country is evenly divided politically, and the officeholders who should take a stand on those issues find self-preservation preferable to the possibility of being driven from office for doing the right thing. Gregory Nelson Joseph Glendale, Arizona...
...faith in the monarchy has also plummeted since the palace slaughter of 2001, in which Crown Prince Dipendra killed King Birendra (Gyanendra's brother) and eight other royals before turning his revolver fatally on himself. King Gyanendra is nowhere near as popular as his predecessor?and by seizing power he could be playing into the hands of the Maoists, who want to topple the monarchy and form a communist republic. The rebels wasted no time in reacting. Maoist leader Prachanda denounced the "genocidal, corrupted national betrayer Gyanendra...
...complicity in the Bush Administration decision to use severe physical interrogation techniques. A similar apathy was the response to the excesses of the Patriot Act, the question of immigrant rights, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's ineptness and arrogance, the need for affordable health insurance and, most tragic, the endless slaughter in Iraq. There is no outrage because pollsters tell us our country is evenly divided politically, and the officeholders who should take a stand on those issues find self-preservation preferable to the possibility of being driven from office for doing the right thing. Gregory Nelson Joseph Glendale, Arizona...
...complicity in the Bush Administration decision to use severe physical interrogation techniques. A similar apathy was the response to the excesses of the Patriot Act, the question of immigrant rights, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's ineptness and arrogance, the need for affordable health insurance and, most tragic, the endless slaughter in Iraq. There is no outrage because pollsters tell us our country is evenly divided politically, and the officeholders who should take a stand on those issues find self-preservation preferable to the possibility of being driven from office for doing the right thing...
...INQUIRY CONCLUDED. Into the 2002 TRAIN FIRE in Gujarat, India that killed 59 Hindu pilgrims and triggered the retaliatory slaughter of 2,000 Muslims in three days of mob violence; by an investigative panel in New Delhi. Retired Judge Umesh Chandra Banerjee's committee said the blaze, blamed on Muslim assailants by Hindu nationalist officials, was probably caused by someone cooking or smoking inside the coaches. Although forensic evidence seems to support the panel's conclusions, many observers have called the findings politically motivated...