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...handedly created divisiveness in the U.S. [Dec. 1]. He became President of a nation already divided by numerous issues--abortion, the death penalty, affirmative action, family values, marriage, national security, welfare, the environment, taxes and so forth. Bush naturally takes a position on each issue, just as every other citizen does. He cannot conceivably support all sides. Anne-Marie Shaffer Palm Coast...
...Attorney General John Ashcroft--so often at odds with civil libertarians--going soft? It might seem that way to those watching recent actions in the war on terrorism. Yaser Esam Hamdi, a U.S. citizen captured in Afghanistan and held without charges for two years, last week was finally allowed to meet with a lawyer for the first time. Australian David Hicks became the first of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay to gain access to lawyers, one military and one from Australia. Meanwhile, the chief author of Ashcroft's controversial Patriot Act, Viet Dinh, a former Justice official...
...year-old civilization is the source of pride of every Chinese citizen, he later added...
...that Taiwan is a self-governing, democratic nation with 23 million people who freely and directly elect their own president and representatives, and have recently increased their commitment to open government with a package of reforms that will allow binding popular referendums—a greater level of citizen empowerment than many states in the U.S. enjoy. However, although the Beijing-based PRC government has never actually ruled Taiwan, it falsely claims it as a “renegade province” of the “sacred motherland,” and intends to eventually “liberate?...
...especially busy at the time. It is commonly argued that a 24-hour on-call shuttle service is prohibitively expensive. Let us place the cost issue into perspective: the National Institute of Justice estimates that incidents of sexual assault cost at least $127 billion every year, approximately $508 a citizen. Even if that figure was not so astronomical, we as a society cannot afford sexual assault. Neither can Harvard. Phones with direct lines to Harvard’s Shuttle Service should be installed outside all libraries, Houses and major buildings on campus and shuttles should be on call throughout...