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...power, he suppressed most resistance through sheer force and an aggressive, overwhelming response to any uprising. I'm sure that the Kurds and the Shi'ite majority, with the support of the U.S., could deal with the Fallujah insurgents. Sometimes the antidote is a bitter pill to swallow. David Hicks Duluth, Georgia, U.S. God and Science While I applaud Nobel-prizewinning physicist Eric Cornell's evenhanded call for moderation in the intelligent-design debate [Nov. 14], I long to see an article that examines the causality for the controversy and suggests how it might be resolved. Among my friends...
...watch—and the one that will likely determine if it has a shot at a championship heading into the final two weeks—will be next week’s Yale-Brown matchup. As difficult as it may be, Harvard fans are going to have to swallow their pride, put on anything blue they own, and root for the Bulldogs to knock off the Bears. If Brown gets by Yale unscathed, the race is pretty much done. The Bears finish up against Dartmouth and Columbia and with the Ivy title on the line, they won?...
...HYBRID. An SUV will glug $1,831 on average at the pump this year, and a sedan will ring up $1,453, according to the Alliance to Save Energy. Meanwhile, a hybrid will swallow as little as $589--not to mention that tax break of up to $3,000 included in last summer's energy bill for buying...
...Conservatives find themselves struggling with whether they really want to whack their President when he's already down and go on the record opposing a devout Evangelical whom he trusts completely. Fight him and lose, and they prove how powerless they are to affect much of anything that counts; swallow hard and fall in line, and what good is their access anyway? By contrast, the Democrats--looking smug and convinced they have dodged a bullet with Miers' selection--actually had it easy. Senate minority leader Harry Reid boasted that he had recommended Miers in his chats with Bush, while most...
Most gay activists would rather swallow glass than say Mat Staver was right about something, but they know that last year's big UCLA survey of college freshmen found that 57% favor same-sex marriage (only about 36% of all adults do). Even as adult activists bicker in court, young Americans--including many young conservatives--are becoming thoroughly, even nonchalantly, gay- positive. From young ages, straight kids are growing up with more openly bisexual, gay and sexually uncertain classmates. In the 1960s, gay men recalled first desiring other males at an average age of 14; it was 17 for lesbians...