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When the Ladies Professional Golf Association announced in August that it would suspend players unable to speak passable English by the end of 2009, the reaction from op-ed pages, athletes, and fans was overwhelmingly one of perplexity and outrage. “What if you have a person who genuinely struggles with learning a new language [or has] a learning disability?” questioned three-time PGA championship winner Padraig Harrington. “You don’t have to speak English to play golf,” said U.S. Open winner and Spanish speaker Angel Cabrera...
...Proponents respond that fighting crime is a sufficient basis to suspend those rights. "I believe these constitutional-safety arguments are academic," says Valley. To be sure, the town's recent litany of crime is horrendous: a 21-year-old woman stabbed a juvenile, a 57-year-old man raped an 8-year-old girl, and drug trafficking was rampant. In order to bring peace to his city, Valley expanded his curfew into a "saturation patrol" plan that now allows Helena police to stop and search anyone. Under the emergency curfew, those stopped who couldn't give a good reason...
Other attendees agreed that the GOP had made the right decision to suspend the majority of events on Monday...
...have decided to immediately suspend disabling our nuclear facilities.' NORTH KOREAN SPOKESMAN, on the nation's policy reversal in response to its being on a U.S. terrorist list...
...time everyone was inside the hall, however, the self-destructive spirit of anti-Obama dissent had drained away. When New York's turn came to vote, Clinton moved to suspend the roll call and select Obama by acclamation. The band played Love Train. And so it was that Barack Obama - human jigsaw puzzle of races and ethnicities - became the first African-American standard-bearer of a major party. There were many black faces with tears rolling down them, and even though Obama plays down the historic nature of his achievement, it's clear that a lot of people...