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Students can vouch for other manifestations of the discontents of some of our less neighborly neighbors, dispatching the 5-0 to bust parties (Saturday night, no less) even as they piggyback Harvard shuttles to the Square, feast on subsidies from the University endowment and gleefully watch their property values soar ever-upward as they indiscreetly drop the H-bomb in just about every local real estate listing...
...want to say personally and directly I'm sorry ... This was an error made in good faith." DAN RATHER, CBS news anchor, during an on-air apology in which he said the network could no longer vouch for the authenticity of documents that supported a 60 Minutes report on President Bush's service in the National Guard...
...want to say personally and directly I'm sorry ... This was an error made in good faith." DAN RATHER, CBS news anchor, during an on-air apology in which he said the network could no longer vouch for the authenticity of documents that supported a 60 Minutes report on President Bush's service in the National Guard...
...Security Information Council (http://www.basicint.org/pubs/Research/2004WMD3.htm#01) suggests that Bush and Blair may have done better to listen more carefully to chief UN weapons inspector Dr. Hans Blix. The UN never actually claimed that Iraq still had stockpiles of banned weapons; merely that it had not provided the evidence to vouch for its claim to have destroyed all of those weapons. Treated like an ineffectual appeaser by most of the U.S. media before the war, Blix suddenly looks like the only one who had it right and quite a few publications, and politicians, owe him an apology...
Tell us, Mr. President, what do people of dignity and value deserve in this great nation that you have the privilege of leading? The right to visit a loved one in intensive care? The right to vouch for a loved one’s green card? The right to jointly adopt children in the eyes of the law? Or how about the right to have our state or commonwealth bear witness to our love for each other, instead of pathologizing it and sweeping it under the rug? We have listened to your vague ideas about dignity and value, and, frankly...