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...order to avoid making it a tourist attraction or a shrine, we believe the best course of action is to eliminate it." Robert Cargie, spokesman for the U.S. 4th Infantry Division in Iraq, after the group requested permission to destroy the hole in which its soldiers found Saddam Hussein...
Bush tries to avoid these words because the cheery meme of compassionate conservatism depends on affirmative language—speeches about what marriage should be rather than what it shouldn’t. Imagine Bush posing for a photo-op with Mary Cheney, only to have her turn to him in front of the cameras and ask if he thinks that she and her longtime partner should be able to marry. Such a confrontation would surely leave Bush stammering and red-faced, because it’s far easier for him to say a dehumanized “no?...
Volunteers for each of the candidates remained under strict orders to avoid criticizing opponents, an indication that the amicable tone of Thursday night’s debate was likely to extend through tomorrow’s primary...
...idea die, as the 30-year time frame--not to mention the $400 billion price tag--discouraged even the heartiest Mars partisans. A landing date 26 years down the line would be an improvement perhaps, but not a terribly meaningful one. While the current President took care to avoid the sticker shock of his father's plan, he might have gone too far in the other direction. The funding he has offered the program so far is just $1 billion spread out over the next five years, plus a reallocation of $11 billion already in the NASA budget--hardly adequate...
...former Downing Street wonk who is now an M.P. Government whips hoped that the peril Blair faced from Hutton would forge party discipline for the vote on tuition fees, but rebels dismissed that as scaremongering. They doubted that Hutton, an establishment figure whose every judicial inclination has been to avoid meddling in politics, would really blast the Prime Minister so fiercely that Blair would have to resign. Blair's own aides seem to agree. And certainly Hutton had many other legitimate targets to choose from, including the BBC and Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon. But the brisk rectitude Hutton displayed through...