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...earlier era, students were a vital part of the movement that expanded voting rights. In 1963, a young Joseph I. Lieberman joined 100 college students from Yale and Stanford to register black voters in Mississippi. Writing in the Yale Daily News about his reasons for skipping class to travel south, he said, “I am going...because there is much work to be done there and few men are doing it….It all becomes a personal matter to me. I am challenged personally...
...sexuality and gender roles to how Islam can accommodate the influence of democratic ideals and Western culture. In this, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, who led Iran's Islamic revolution in 1979, had it right when he declared that Islam is inseparable from politics. In three Islamic countries whose destinies are vital to the security of the U.S.--Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the Ayatullah's Iran--the political future is very much up for grabs...
...that he is not weak, Bush's task at the Republican Convention in New York City this week is to show that he is not wrong, that his strength comes not from a six-gun temperament but from judgment that has matured through three years of hard testing. His vital audience is not that portion of the electorate that sees him as a savior, nor is it the inflamed opposition that calls him a liar and a zealot. He needs to reach the voters who are unsure about either voting for him or voting at all; who don't think...
...Duffy, chairman of Diageo Ireland, says that Guinness's financial performance is "extremely important" to its parent company. "The growth rates are pretty impressive outside of Europe, but the brand's home markets are still large," he says. "St. James's Gate is the home of Guinness. It is vital." Analysts agree. Bleakley estimates that Guinness's operations have a 20% return on invested capital, compared to 18% for Diageo's spirits, and 12% for most European brewers. And there's room to grow; the 50 countries where Guinness is brewed have significant potential. (At most of those sites, other...
DIED. SUNE BERGSTROM, 88, Nobel laureate who in the 1950s helped discover the structure and function of prostaglandins, a family of hormones that play a vital role in a host of bodily functions; in Stockholm. Drugs derived from the chemicals are widely used in birth control, abortion, pain relief and the prevention of blood clots...