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...third Senate term. But he succumbs to unexpected distractions--including a romance with a glamorous Manhattan designer and the appearance of a previously unknown (surprise, Charlie!) illegitimate son. The most unexpected distraction of all: a tough re-election opponent named Lee Butler. Butler is the book's weakest link--the right-wing nightmare of a New Yorker political correspondent (Klein's day job). Butler launches his campaign with a series of Bible-study meetings, and he gets more Ralph Reedy from there. And you'll never guess: it turns out he's a hypocrite! In some literary precincts, apparently, this...
...conditions on a human being's personhood bases human rights on an arbitrary decision and can be used to justify infanticide just as easily as abortion. Further, HRL believes that tying the value of human life to its "quality" is extremely dangerous and can justify the killing of the weakest and most defenseless members of society...
...among teachers and students alike. "The only teaching this does is to make kids cough up answers on command," says Alfie Kohn, author of The Schools Our Children Deserve. Adds Linda McNeil, a professor of education at Rice University: "They'll drive out the best teachers and give the weakest a place to hide...
...dispatched a veterans' encounter group led by his brother Joe McCain on a bus tour of Carolina. The men on the bus are some of the nation's most decorated war heroes, and they draw gracious, even reverent crowds, especially in conservative areas where McCain is weakest. Yet in the new TIME/CNN poll, veterans who plan to vote in the G.O.P. primary say they favor Bush over McCain, 58% to 30%. In some other polls McCain seems to be faring better among veterans, but he can't count on them to deliver the state. So he's working other avenues...
Although the debate about an explicit speech code at Harvard has abated, some experts say students' rights are threatened even by the weakest of speech restrictions, such as those at Harvard...