Word: manifestos
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...Ahmedabad bombings indeed appear domestic in origin. Minutes before the first of 22 bombs went off, a group called Indian Mujahideen sent a 14-page manifesto to Indian news organizations asserting that the attack was "planned and executed by Indians only." They claimed "sole responsibility" for the bombs, which have killed more than 40 people so far, and, as if offended at the idea that they needed outside help, admonished groups with links to Pakistan "for the sake of Allah, not to claim the responsibility for these attacks...
...What a fight it could be. The SNP have already wrested control of Scotland's own parliament away from Labour with a manifesto that calls for the country's eventual secession from the United Kingdom. If Scottish Nationalists were to achieve a swing of the magnitude of Glasgow East at the next general election, Labour would lose all but one of its 40 Scottish seats in Westminster. Brown himself, the MP for Kircaldy and Cowdenbeath near Edinburgh, would be among the casualties...
...PAUL to follow up The Revolution: A Manifesto with memoir...
...informed-consent dialogue.'' States are not free, he wrote, to use ''the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.'' Rejecting Pennsylvania's argument that the regulations were in the state's justifiable interest, Blackmun concluded in what reads like a manifesto: ''Our cases long have recognized that the Constitution embodies a promise that a certain private sphere of individual liberty will be kept largely beyond the reach of government. That promise extends to women as well as to men. Few decisions are more personal and intimate, more properly private, or more basic...
...Dissonant though it may be, on June 26, the environmental committee of Spain's lower house of parliament approved a resolution supporting the Great Ape Project, an organization and manifesto founded by ethicists Peter Singer and Paola Cavalieri, which argues that three essential human rights - life, liberty and freedom from physical and psychological torture - should be extended to our closest hominid relatives. Joan Herrera, congressman for the Catalan Green Initiative party, justified the measure before parliament, saying that the primates "are capable of recognizing themselves, and have cognitive capabilities...