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...they do every week, the??90 members of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity at Oregon State University file into their dining hall for a very different kind of frat party. The rows of scrubbed and pressed young men sit down to eat under the watchful eye of the brother who is acting as manners chair. No swearing is permitted. Napkins on laps are required. Small bites are urged instead of gulps. Scofflaws must do penalty push-ups or pay a fine into the piggy bank in the middle of each table...
Just how close was the??relationship between the President and disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff? Bush "saw me in almost a dozen settings," Abramoff wrote to a journalist friend in an e-mail that surfaced last week, "and joked with me about a bunch of things, including details of my kids." But the White House has continued to assert that the President has no recollection of ever meeting the admitted felon. Now a photograph of them together has finally come to light. The photo, taken on May 9, 2001, at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building adjacent to the White House, shows...
...critical acclaim received by the??movie Brokeback Mountain is well deserved [Jan. 30]. It takes a courageous filmmaker to tackle the subject of a love affair between two men. Like many, I was awed by the depth of the movie and its characters. I certainly have no problem with gay men who establish lasting relationships. But I am concerned about those who carry on homosexual affairs while married to women who have no knowledge of their husbands' extramarital activities. While many people are moved by the pain and forbidden love of the male characters in the movie, I can think...
Before Obama ever cast a vote in the??Senate, his picture had been splashed on magazine covers, and pundits were declaring he would be the first black President. That kind of fame can be awkward in the Senate--where nearly every member thinks he or she could be President. But Obama has won over his colleagues by using the Hillary Clinton approach of conspicuously paying respect to their experience. After his term began, he met with more than a dozen Senators, including Clinton and Ted Kennedy, to seek their advice. In weekly breakfast meetings for Illinois residents visiting Washington, Obama...
Columnist Joe Klein argued that the??Democrats are on the wrong side of the debate over the Bush Administration's eavesdropping on citizens without a court order [Jan. 16], but he misrepresents the situation. No one objects to wiretapping to prevent terrorism. It is the unchecked power to order surveillance that is worrisome. When the President can decide without oversight who the enemy is, there is nothing to prevent his spying on anyone he chooses. There is simply no way to tell if presidential power is being abused. Klein touts the successes of the spying program and laments that...