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...word war gives it a legitimacy it does not deserve. The Bush Administration has used the war on terror to justify pre-emptive strikes, arrests without trial and a morality in which the ends justify the means. The conditions for a just war, worked out over centuries to prevent premature and self-justifying wars, have been subverted by the U.S. It is time to withdraw the illegal army of occupation and devise a timetable for a multinational U.N. force of peacekeepers. Stephen Liddle Napier, New Zealand Perhaps we are looking in the wrong direction for the antidote to violence...
Summers also objected to the DoC’s proposal that license applications consider country of birth, as well as citizenship and permanent residence—a measure that, according to the DoC’s summary of the proposal, was intended to prevent researchers from hiding their political loyalties behind a new citizenship. Summers called this requirement “neither reasonable nor permissible” and said that Harvard does not collect this information because of federal laws that prohibit discrimination on the basis of national origin...
Before 9/11, there were 33 U.S. air marshals in the skies. Since then, the U.S. has hired thousands (the precise number is classified) to help prevent another terrorist attack. None has had to fire a weapon in the line of duty post-9/11 until Wednesday, when a federal air marshal shot and killed Rigoberto Alpizar, a 44-year-old U.S. citizen who authorities say claimed he had a bomb, on a plane in a Miami airport...
...Supreme Court dealt gay rights activists a severe blow in June 2000 when the justices, in a 5-4 vote, ruled that New Jersey could not prevent the Boy Scouts from ousting a homosexual scoutmaster. Now, a team of gay rights activists and law school professors hopes to wrest a major victory from the jaws of defeat.The June 2000 case, Boy Scouts of America v. Dale, could figure prominently in oral arguments this morning as the justices consider a high-profile dispute over campus military recruitment. A coalition of three-dozen law schools, the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights...
...exceptions, should not be required by any state. The costs of parental notification laws outweigh the benefits. Notification opens up the abortion-seeker to abuse and coercion from her parents. In theory, one might suppose that a law requiring parental notification except if the daughter fears abuse would prevent parents from hurting their children. However, data show that child abuse and sexual abuse are underreported. Young girls may be so afraid of their parents that they would not disclose any abuse. Thus, a notification law could subject already traumatized girls to mistreatment. Nor is the law likely to achieve...