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Britons will watch all such appointments closely for hints on Brown's health and education policies and on how he may tackle the hottest topic in domestic politics: how to solve the shortage of affordable housing. The international community will focus instead on big issues such as the duration of Britain's presence in Iraq and his handling of relations with America...
...most of them "do not shed their brains at the schoolhouse gate." And so to allow schools to ban speech that merely alludes to drugs might, he says, squelch "a full and frank discussion of the costs and benefits of the attempt to prohibit the use of marijuana," a topic at the heart of political debate. (Justice Stephen Breyer, often in accord with the case's dissenters, writes separately (and alone) to say the court should just declare that the law gives the principal immunity from getting sued and punt the case on procedural grounds. Good one, Stephen...
With Sicko, a movie that does not take aim at the gun lobby or the Republican party, but America's healthcare system, Moore believes he's chosen less hostile territory. It's a topic that "both conservatives and liberals" can identify with, Moore said. But he says that he will be denounced no matter what he does: "Those few remaining voices in support of the war and in support of Mr. bush would criticize me if I opened up a factory making American flags. If I gave away 1,000 American flags every day they would find some...
...forefront of the outrage - and may be a harbinger for how grassroots protests are heard by Chinese authorities in the future. As is often the case, coverage of the incident has been gently moved off the front pages of Chinese newspapers. Nevertheless, the subject is still a hot topic on Chinese websites, where much of criticism was directed at the authorities for failing to intervene to stop the human trafficking and enslavement of the brick kiln workers. Even in usually docile official publication like the English language China Daily, the sense of shock and outrage many Chinese felt on seeing...
...websites like the U.S. National Library and eMedicine Health. Each year, searches on the politically charged term reach their pinnacle in late October, just prior to November elections. Rounding out the remaining top searched-for political issues over the last four weeks were: "Iraq casualties," "death penalty," and the topic that was featured extensively in the recent debates, "illegal immigration." For those anticipating Al "doth protest too much" Gore's announcement to throw his hat in the ring, search terms around global warming and climate change are noticeably absent from political search terms. Searches on the term are sending Internet...