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...smooth the path of Bush's judicial nominees. Like anyone who has seen Jimmy Stewart in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Byrd knows the filibuster can be used for good and for ill and is better left alone. "It may irritate us. It may irk us, but it's stood the test of time," Byrd declares. He could well be talking about himself...
Women reacted to 9/11 in ways that were both more practical and more profound than men's responses. They were the ones who scrambled to pick up the kids from school that day. They stood in line for bottled water and duct tape, fretted over whether the eighth-grade field trip was worth the risk, wheeled their strollers through security to get to tot swim classes. Polls in the weeks after 9/11 found far more women than men reporting that they were depressed, losing sleep and fearful from the news coverage they had watched. "All the polls showed women feeling...
Turnpike board member Christy Mihos, who stood alone in voting against the sale in April, questioned the Turnpike Authority’s motivations in selling the land...
Aparisim Ghosh deserves praise for his excellent story on Lahib Nouman, the attorney who stood up to the tyranny of Uday Hussein in defense of an innocent man and free speech and endured decades of torture [WORLD, May 5]. What a rare and brave woman! She should be recognized as a hero of our time. Shame on her family for abandoning her. May she be an inspiration to us all to always do the right thing, no matter how unpopular it is. I would like to think that our forefathers manifested a similar spirit when this country was established. MIMI...
...politician, or even to a doctor or a nurse. Instead, the most vivid expression of this outbreak's impact can be found on an eight-year-old girl, Tang Chia-ru, who wears her hair in pigtails and, when given the choice, prefers noodles to rice. Last Friday, she stood behind her father fidgeting with her face mask and staring at the swarm of photographers who surrounded her and at the smiling face of her mother who looked down from a picture frame hanging in a Taipei funeral parlor. Her mother was nurse Chen Ching-chiu, who died...