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...prudential," latitude in fitting doctrine to political action. That is not license to contradict teaching, but an acknowledgment of the delicacy of its application in the real world. In practice, says the Rev. John Langan of Georgetown University, prudence could translate into supporting Pennsylvania's pro-choice Arlen Specter (as Santorum has) to maintain the Senate majority of the Republican Party, which skews antiabortion. Former New York Governor Mario Cuomo once famously suggested that "prudential" latitude might involve voting pro-choice because recriminalizing abortion would allow people to pretend they had solved the problem while merely pushing it underground...
Cinema fans will note a similarity between the New Zealand settlement and the 1959 anti-war picture “On the Beach,” about post-nuclear war Australians living out their last months with the specter of radioactive clouds approaching the continent...
...British and Canadian forces who landed at Gold and Juno beaches fought their way ashore, according to plan, and were soon followed by tanks, the mere sight of which swept most of the German resistance away. The fighting was harder at Sword Beach, where German defenders stiffened against the specter of the Allies' capturing the nearby city of Caen. The hardest fighting of all raged throughout the day on the fifth beach, Omaha. It was a relatively narrow strand of shoreline overshadowed by 100-ft. cliffs. Troops trying to land there found themselves in a horrifying position, vulnerable to machine...
...global implications. Faced with overheating markets and rising inflation, Beijing wants to ease annual growth of gross domestic product (GDP) from the current rate of nearly 10% to a more manageable 7%. But China's policymakers may lack the monetary tools to engineer a soft landing, and the specter of a Chinese crash is contributing to fears that the global economic recovery-already under pressure from skyrocketing oil prices and rising interest rates-is in peril. Asian stock markets are throwing off storm warnings: on May 10, the region's bourses tumbled by as much as 5.7%, registering their steepest...
...mark. The report of Bush's displeasure animated the Rumsfeld critics, who along with the press interpreted the move as an attempt to make him the fall guy for the growing scandal. Democrats may have, for the moment, saved the White House, which had begun to imagine the specter of a bipartisan consensus among nodding wise men that Rumsfeld, whom Bush never intended to remove, was finished. Instead, that claim was taken up vocally by partisan Democrats, including House minority leader Nancy Pelosi and presidential challenger John Kerry. At the White House, officials exhaled, happy that the situation was playing...