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...rare occasion, a book, a movie or, in this case, an article confronts you with enough power to jar you out of your comfort zone. Living a relatively privileged life, it is easy to lose sight of basic freedoms we take for granted: to be able to shop at a market without fearing that a bomb will go off, to trust that our justice system will treat us fairly and to have confidence that our families and friends will be alive tomorrow. Although I disagreed with the decision to initiate war in Iraq, I can now imagine the consequences...
...Felons Vote? Once they've served their time, punishing them further by taking away a basic right isn't just unfair to them...
...fall semester, our room had become an unbearably tense atmosphere of tears, public fights, sleepless nights, and slammed doors that left no one happy. I cannot begin to describe the issues the five of us personally had, nor would it be helpful at this point. At the most basic level, the conflict was a four-against-one situation regarding the quiet hours of our room and the schedules that we kept, only exacerbated by ancillary emotions surrounding the transition to college...
...catches more rain than a bucket. So astronomers are looking forward to a ground-based monster with nearly 10 times the light-gathering area of the Keck, a space telescope more than 10 times as big as the Hubble and several radio telescopes with unprecedented sensitivity. Meanwhile, using the basic laws of physics, sophisticated computer simulations and tantalizing hints from existing telescopes, astronomers have put together a plausible scenario of what must have happened during the Dark Ages...
...McConnell's silence - which Dyche believes is intentional - has left others, including Secretary of State Trey Grayson, to call for Fletcher to quit after a single four-year term. "There is a basic worry that if the governor is on the ballot in the fall, he can't win against the Democrat," Grayson in an interview Wednesday. Grayson said he has spoken twice this month with McConnell about his plans, but said they were private conversations. McConnell declined comment. "We ran last time on a campaign aimed at cleaning up Frankfort, with changing the culture in Frankfort," Grayson...