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...refusal of the nation’s largest retailer to carry a perfectly safe means to prevent a pregnancy builds nicely upon the current national mood. One need only glance at the news to find ample evidence of America’s slide to the right on reproductive issues. The Food and Drug Administration’s refusal to approve EC for over-the-counter sale in the face of scientific consensus, the Democratic Party’s endorsement of pro-life candidate Robert Casey Jr. to oppose Rick Santorum, R-Penn., President Bush’s appointment of strongly...
...Jesse Jackson Founder and president of Rainbow/PUSH Coalition Inc. and former presidential candidate He would be challenging the war in Iraq. The war has no moral foundation. It's built upon a lie, built upon imminent threat, weapons of mass destruction, an al-Qaeda connection. He'd focus on that. Second, of course, he'd protest vehemently that we've gone from lying about the war to spying on people protesting the war. He was on the anti-Vietnam war list. He would be protesting this violation of constitutional rights. Third, his last mission was to build a working poor...
Rachel M. Moore ’08, another passenger, said her mother was flipping channels at home when she came upon CNN, which showed the plane in the air and featured experts giving, alternately, reassuring and gloomy prognoses...
...monitor communications within the U.S. (Outside the U.S., it still enjoys a free hand.) The new law created the FISA court, an 11-member secret panel whose job it is to hear the NSA requests and issue--or deny--the warrants. In the event that the NSA comes upon a situation that seems to require immediate action, the law permits the agency to eavesdrop without a warrant so long as it applies for one within 72 hours...
...Hwang highlights the obvious truth that outside powers have inflicted great harm upon Korea, playing a major role in its painful division. But to a foreign reader his apparent conviction that the malign influence of Westerners should absolve Korean participants of their own guilt in the bloodshed is perplexing. This sentiment?it could be summed up as "the foreign devils made them do it"?may be comforting to Korean readers eager to overcome the burdens of their tortured history. But Hwang's determination to smooth over the ugliness of the past may doom his book to a far less enthusiastic...