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...disappointed in your choice of Hugh Hefner for 10 Questions [Jan. 26]. His statement "Embracing sexuality is part of what it means to be free" makes sense until one remembers that actions have consequences. Many of our moral, social and health challenges today--unplanned pregnancies, poverty, AIDS, STDs, etc.--are a result of the sexual freedom Hefner so eagerly promotes. These problems will not be solved by encouraging more sexual freedom. Allison McKee, ARLINGTON...
...called the press reports “premature” in an e-mailed statement and declined to comment. The former dean of the Kennedy School will make his formal decision regarding the nomination as early as the end of the week, according to the Boston Herald...
Governor Rod Blagojevich's 47-min. closing statement at his impeachment trial was the only real hiccup in the state senate hearings that had gone very smoothly in his absence. "It's painful to hold your tongue," Blagojevich said of the accusations leveled at him in December. But he insisted that he did not commit a criminal act, adding, "I didn't resign then, and I'm not resigning now." He went on, "You haven't been able to show wrongdoing in this trial," said Blagojevich, who called the proceedings an "improper impeachment not based on evidence" and hinted that...
Maybe you watched the now former Governor Rod Blagojevich make his tardy and halfhearted "closing statement" to the Illinois senate that was poised to boot him from office. More likely, you didn't. After his media blitz through New York earlier in the week, what could he possibly say that...
Through it all, the governor, as he did at his closing statement, painted himself as a defender of the poor and infirm, someone who is being unfairly targeted by legislators who want to reverse his progressive health-care and social-welfare policies. Indeed, despite the criminal charges against Blagojevich (including allegations that he tried to sell Barack Obama's vacant U.S. Senate seat), the trial is focusing on the governor's alleged "abuse of power": ignoring the wishes of the legislature by vastly expanding health care and other programs at a time when his critics say the state could least...