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Giving citizens more power to act in these situations would mean giving individuals the right to judge preemptively whether a person is a terrorist or not. But the power to be judge and executioner is of necessity the prerogative of the state alone. Obviously we "talk like victims" because we are the targets of terrorism. I don't find it "intolerable to travel" and certainly do not see an alternative to giving Grandma a pat down. What are you proposing? Profiling passengers on age? Then we are just one step away from doing the same for gender, race and religion...
...Hollywood's most liked and admired leading men. Most durable too: he received his first Academy Award nomination back in 1972 (for Supporting Actor in The Last Picture Show). Crazy Heart has made him a favorite to win Best Actor on March 7 - the night Cameron will find out whether the near trillions Avatar has amassed in box-office gelt translate to Oscars for Best Director and Best Picture...
...wants measured, it seems the HDI and HPI have it over the GDP. For its report "International Public Opinion on Measuring National Progress: 2007" GlobeScan, a research firm based in Canada and London, surveyed 1,000 people in each of 10 countries not including the U.S.. When asked whether health, social and environmental status should figure into measures of national progress as much as economic data, between 70% (Russia) and 86% (France) agreed. "It's common sense and matches their experience," says Hazel Henderson, whose firm commissioned the study. "People know there is much valuable in their lives besides...
...earlier version of the Jan. 29 news article "Birds in a Cambridge Yard Stir Neighborhood Trouble" did not clearly state whether the Fastmans and Brasher began their project with knowledge of its legality. In fact, the trio acquired their chickens and ducks with the understanding that such a move was legal in Cambridge...
...another set for its gays and lesbians. What the challenge to Prop 8 - California's 2008 vote to change its constitution to ban gay marriage - is all about is gathering hard evidence about the roots of that uneven playing field. Both sides see it as a crucial test of whether society can insist that heterosexual unions are worthy of the full sanction of the law in a way that other unions are not. (Is the solution to the gay-marriage debate to end marriage altogether...