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...wasn't. This week the Senate is expected to consider a bill called the Religious Liberty Protection Act, whose turgid name suggests that what the Pilgrims held dear is threatened in the very nation they founded. Supporters believe that government officials disrupt religious activities even today, despite the First Amendment's crystal-clear language: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...
...bill's backers say cities pass zoning laws that keep churches out. They say children cannot wear the Star of David to school because of regulations meant to ban gang symbols. They say coroners perform autopsies on those whose faith holds that the corpse is sacred. In short, without the Religious Liberty Protection Act, says Marc Stern of the American Jewish Congress, "you send a message to the state [authorities] that they have carte blanche to interfere with religious practices...
...than to act decisively to end the pogrom in East Timor ? but sentiment seldom trumps geopolitics in the affairs of state, and geopolitics is a cynical business. Back in December 1975, the U.S. gave Indonesia a nod and a wink to proceed with its invasion of the tiny country, whose Portuguese colonial administration had collapsed. In fact, President Gerald Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had been in Jakarta the day before Indonesian troops went in. With South Vietnam having collapsed only eight months earlier, Washington wasn't about to see another Asian domino fall to the communists...
Here's another solution that I should have mentioned: Seattle Filmworks www.seattlefilmworks.com) which provides a relatively inexpensive way to digitize your film. It too will put pictures on a disc and, even cooler, will post them on a private website whose address you can share with friends and family. Some might object to a mail-only (at least, outside the West Coast) operation--you have to send in your film, and the company returns it a week or so later. But the prices are competitive, and friends who've used the service swear by it. Best of all, Seattle Filmworks...
...know a number of people in their 20s and 30s who are not multimillionaires. I know people that age who have no stock options whatsoever. Some of them, in fact, have no stock. Given all we read about 28-year-old Internet executives whose holdings were cut by recent stock dips to only about $40 million, or investment bankers who now feel they have a nest egg large enough to allow them to ease into retirement at 27, or 30-year-old writers who wandered onto the staff of the right sitcom while waiting for the first novel to jell...