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...group and others come to be seen as trying to block a lifesaving treatment? One explanation is that they sensed a backlash from parents and moderated their position. "Originally some of the groups came out 100% against the vaccine," claims NOW's Gandy. "Some of those have backed off and are just saying they don't want it to be mandatory...
Getting Republicans together has been the major stumbling block on immigration reform. Twenty-three GOP senators supported President Bush's plan, which would strengthen border security, create a guest worker program and offer a path to citizenship for the some 10 million illegals already in this country. On the other side are most House Republicans, who want border security only and don't want to hear about anything that they regard as "amnesty" until later, if ever. Today House Republicans stunned their Senate colleagues by announcing that they intend to hold public hearings around the country this August to highlight...
...history, Hong Kong has used the harbor as an inexhaustible supply of land. Reclamation has enabled Hong Kong to grow both physically and economically. But the fill-and-build model has led to a backlash, and in 2004 lawyer and activist Winston Chu won a court fight to block a 26-hectare reclamation project in Wanchai, east of Central. "There is a very strong community call to stop all this continuing infilling of the harbor, which I think is totally valid," says Fung. "But still I think we need to finish it up and build the best waterfront...
...crisis in Only Human, which is that movie rarity, a truly great farce, is innocently precipitated by the always helpful Rafi. He's given a kitchen task - decanting and defrosting a huge block of frozen soup. Somehow it slips out of his hands and sails out a window, where it lands on a passerby who may be the absent father and may be dead as a result of the accident. Neither his identity nor his fate can at first be fully determined, for by the time the ambulance arrives, the victim has disappeared. In any case, the family is less...
This past fall, Rumsfeld and Summers found themselves on opposite sides of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” debate—a fact that goes unmentioned in the defense chief’s letter. The Pentagon threatened to block hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funds to Harvard unless the Law School let military recruiters use its career placement office. Summers said in September that the military’s policy toward gay and lesbian service members was “corrosive.” And Harvard joined...