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...doctrine that are extreme departures from prior American national security policy. He attacks Bush’s hypocrisy by using the president’s own stance in the 2000 elections as a contrast to his present policy. And he weighs the detriment—fiscal, moral, and military??the United States has faced since the institution of the Bush Doctrine. But the book is much more than one long polemic. Shapiro argues that terrorism can be contained despite the contrast between these small cells and the gigantic Soviet Union for which the policy of containment was developed...
Members of Lambda, a Harvard Law School gay rights student group, presented the award during a celebratory banquet capping off a weekend-long conference examining the military??s policy, which bans openly gay and bisexual individuals from serving in the military...
...event came three days after Rep. Martin T. Meehan (D-Mass.) reintroduced the Military Readiness Enhancement Act, which would lift the military??s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy entirely...
...Dixon Osburn, the co-founder and executive director of SLDN, accepted the award on the organization’s behalf, saying that lifting the military??s ban would mark a milestone in gay rights reminiscent of the civil rights struggle...
...event marked the second time Lambda has given its leadership award to a group battling the military??s prohibition on openly gay servicemembers. Last year, the group recognized Boston College Law School professor Kent Greenfield, the founder of a coalition of law schools that challenged the constitutionality of the Solomon Amendment. The law requires universities to grant the military access to their campuses in order to receive federal funds...