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Flurries of thick, wet snow swirled through the streets of Washington last Wednesday, clogging traffic and slowing down pedestrians to a labored trudge. As the snow piled up, Government offices and private businesses closed early and sent their workers home. By midafternoon, traffic on the bridges over the Potomac River that link the capital with its Virginia suburbs had already slowed to a crawl. Meanwhile, Washington National Airport had just reopened after having been shut down by the snowfall for two hours. At 3:59 p.m., Air Florida's Flight 90 to Tampa, a Boeing 737 with 74 passengers...
...scene of an emergency, regardless of who performs the deed. "I spent 31 years in law enforcement, and as a highway patrol officer I responded to many, many, many accidents. I was not the first one there. Someone had helped a victim out of the car, out of the traffic lane, administered CPR," says Benoit. "I immediately, upon hearing about this case, was extremely concerned that it would in any way thwart people's willingness to give that aid, because in my experience that would translate into lives lost." (Read about California's looming fiscal crisis...
...simply ethical imperialism. Dr. Onuma Yasuaki, University of Tokyo law professor, notes that “for those who have experienced colonial rule and interventions under such beautiful slogans as humanity and civilization”, human rights look like more slogans to rationalize intervention. Human rights are tough to traffic wholesale. As for the case last Friday, if human rights defenders desire liberties and immunities for the AIDS activists they must engage supportive elements of Shar’ia law, making their advocacy culturally palpable, even though most tenets of Shar’ia law concerning homosexual behavior condemn...
...force overtime, the Crimson’s freshman point guard Brogan Berry fought off the press, and pushed the ball down the right side of the court. But with Berry looking to feed one of her sharp shooting co-captains, Dartmouth players swarmed her passing lanes. Somewhere in the traffic, the ball popped out of Berry’s hands and into those of the Big Green’s Darcy Rose...
...attack, by two gunmen on motorcycles in the middle of morning-rush-hour traffic, was brazen even by the standards of Sri Lanka. The country has suffered through more than 25 years of war between the government and a Tamil separatist group, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, which pioneered the use of suicide bombers. Wickrematunge wasn't far from his home in Colombo South when he was approached sometime between 10 and 11 a.m. by the two gunmen, who blocked his car and shot him in the head and chest. He was taken to a nearby hospital, where...