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...amazed by the double standard being used for Sotomayor. George W. Bush suspends constitutional rights to catch terrorists and is labeled evil and un-American. Sotomayor suspends constitutional rights to catch sex offenders and is said to be "empathetic" to the problems of police officers. Is it acceptable or unacceptable to ignore constitutional rights? Bryan Smith, TUCSON, ARIZ...
...negative as it had ever been, he seemed largely unrattled. Instead, he held fast to an abiding belief that he had done what he thought best. "Don Rumsfeld is a throwback to a breed of public man who judge themselves not relative to their peers but relative to the standard they have set for themselves, a standard closely equated to the public good," Steve Cambone remarked...
...Ayelet Waldman's book Bad Mother seems kind of like a gender reversal of your book: she boasted that she loves her husband more than her children and wants to have a career. And she was pilloried for this. Is there a double standard there? Of course. There is no question that it is easier to outrage people by celebrating one's bad motherhood than celebrating one's bad fatherhood. People cut men more slack. Ayelet is writing a much more controversial book than I ever could unless I said something like, "I intend to kill my children." (Read...
...prohibition of incest. While the Justice Department is obligated by tradition to defend current law in court, several gay-rights activists said they found the arguments in the brief insulting. "As an American, a civil-rights advocate and a human being, I hold this Administration to a higher standard than this brief," wrote Joe Solmonese, head of Human Rights Campaign, in a letter to Obama on June...
...city's Chinese élite. Designed by Li Pan, a popular architect of the day, it was an ostentatious project, costing 1.2 million silver dollars (or about $325 million in today's money) and featured a host of mod cons - like air-conditioning - that were then becoming standard in luxury international hotels but represented heady advances for locally financed properties. Tycoons, heirs, heiresses and film stars flocked to the Yangtze's opening. The hotel's nightclub, the Yangtze Dance Hall, became, with its big bands and song divas, one of the hot spots of the era. (See Time.com/Travel...