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...COUPLING The Supreme Court struck down a ban on gay sex, and Canada okayed gay marriage. Now a Pew survey says opposition to gay marriage has dropped from 65% to 53% since...
Just after dawn last Thursday morning, four bullets whistled across the Demilitarized Zone from North Korean positions near the town of Yonchon, 35 miles north of Seoul. Three of the rounds struck the concrete wall of a South Korean guard post; the fourth was found nearby. South Korean soldiers replied a minute later with K3 machine guns, firing 17 rounds back across the DMZ. It was the first exchange of fire since late 2001 by forces that have remained technically at war since 1953. It was also the latest sign of a deepening crisis on the Korean peninsula...
...being like "respectable" newspapers--reaffirming its commitment to accessible news is just as laudable. The paper helped broaden the definition of news beyond the preoccupations of elites: the lead story in its Money section is more likely to be about rising cable rates than about the latest deal struck by a cable corporation, and it doesn't look down on readers who want to read about new food-labeling regulations before, say, the U.S. stance on Liberia. Granted, the paper still sometimes runs ditsy articles that seem like parodies out of the Onion. For instance, last Monday it ran strong...
...made aware of the concerns by many people…That made me and my staff look at the matter and change things we might have missed,” Riley said. “I was struck by the importance of some of the things we were leaving...
...court’s 5-4 ruling last month struck down the point system employed by the undergraduate admissions office at University of Michigan, which gave minority groups a numeric advantage in admissions considerations. But in upholding that university’s law school admissions system, the Court maintained that affirmative action policies in themselves do not constitute an illegal quota and are a vital tool for diversifying college campuses...