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...Chairman Yassir Arafat permanently cast his lot against Osama bin Laden—and therefore with the U.S.—in the current conflict. We are deeply concerned by the use of deadly force to quell the protests and deplore the PA’s attempt to suppress news reports of the events. But we hope that its opposition to the horrific Sept. 11 attack on innocent civilians will convince the PA that it must combat terrorism, in all its forms, to achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East...
...suppress our homosexual feelings and we should suppress them,” he says...
...supporting the ordination of women in the Roman Catholic Church, Sister Joan Chittister is a prophet for our times [RELIGION, Aug. 20]. The Vatican's attempts to suppress discussion of women serving as priests and to silence those who favor it are not only a violation of the church's own social-justice teachings; these attempts are also likely to backfire (think Galileo and Martin Luther). In addition, at a time of a growing, worldwide shortage of priests (only 400 were ordained in the U.S. this year), such a ban is shortsighted. I am grateful that Sister Joan...
...prisoner of war, which Saddam knows would dominate the front pages for days, weeks and months. So this is another reminder of the risks of the "no-fly zone" policy, which the U.S. and Britain maintain in order to restrict Saddam's ability to move troops around either to suppress domestic opposition or to threaten to invade another neighbor. Because the 1990 invasion caught everyone by surprise - the U.S. had good relations with Saddam before that, on the grounds that Iraq was the strategic underpinning of the containment of Iran. The "no-fly zone" makes it hard for Saddam...
...shareholder buyout by the BIS. But Howe said he’s using this primary complaint as a platform from which to allege price fixing of the gold market—the claim that he said implicates Summers. The suit says that as Secretary, Summers acted improperly to suppress gold prices...