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...Driving east down U.S. Highway 90, along the strip which connects Pass Christian to Pascagoula, the vast Gulf of Mexico looking tranquil as a lake on my right, I came to the memorial known as Eight Flags. Located on the Gulfport-Biloxi line, the site, which includes a Confederate flagpole, has been mired in controversy for over two years. Still at question is whether this Rebel flag is a thoughtful "heritage" salute to the Confederate dead or a racist affront to African-Americans. The NAACP has poured untold resources into banning the flag because the park is funded by taxpayer...
Over the past few days President Bush has sacked the vast majority of his economic team, including Treasury Secretary Paul H. O’Neill and chief economic policy adviser Lawrence B. Lindsey. Though this should have been an opportunity to bring in new ideas that could help jump-start the economy, Bush has instead appointed more big-business cronies who will act as a mouthpiece for the same old tax-cutting nonsense that has been spewing from the White House since Bush took office...
...people signed the petition. His was the single most important name on the petition,” Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz said. “Anyone who’s an expert at petitions knows that the key is to get important names…The vast majority of the people who signed the petition believe that Chomsky supports divestment...
...most serious of stories. FM first fell in love with William in the fall of his first year, when he was featured in a Halloween fashion dialogue—dressed as Minnie Mouse. With countless FM stories under his writer’s belt, William brings experience and a vast amount of editorial understanding to the table. The magazine is thrilled to have him committed...
This violence is especially disheartening because McDonald’s has done so much for the world. In addition to clearing vast swaths of rainforest, it has helped change the very shape of the human body. A study released last summer reported that a much fattier diet has lead to an unprecedented gain in weight among the human population. The average man today weighs 7 kilograms more than the average man in 1980. (For women it was 6 kg.) This enormous increase will present the largest evolutionary challenge to the human form in hundreds of years, which means that McDonald?...