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Schwarzenegger refused to comment further on his motives, saying through an aide only that he would veto the bill "out of respect for the will of the people" (voters passed a referendum in 2000 restricting marriage to a union between a man and a woman). But Schwarzenegger won't have the last word. A case about the constitutionality of gay marriage will probably be heard by the California Supreme Court next year; similar lawsuits are pending in New Jersey, New York and Washington. With several states having amended their constitutions to ban gay marriage--and Massachusetts the only...
...link between conflict and inequality, China could lead the international community in a far more constructive direction. Since economic development and cultural continuity are basic human rights, a discussion based on this framework would also allow President Bush to congratulate President Hu on China's current efforts to respect and protect human rights in China and Tibet?efforts that could greatly improve the Tibetan people's situation and enhance China's reputation internationally...
There's something unnerving about Miéville's writing. In fact there's everything unnerving about it. Miéville just doesn't respect boundaries: the supernatural flows into the everyday, the dead return to life, the past intrudes into the present, human bodies combine with machines. In the opening story London has been transmogrified into a surreal, deadly jungle through which a forlorn lover pursues the titular Jake. In Reports of Certain Events in London, a man uncovers documents detailing a secret war being fought over time and space. The combatants in this war are, literally, city streets...
...these and other worries, the principle of the cleaning and the care with which it is being done deserve support. You cannot preserve the monochrome Sistine that misled generations of visitors to Rome, including some of the best painters and art historians in the past 200 years, and still respect Michelangelo's intentions...
...peed in that bottle [in 1999], there wasn't EPO in it," Armstrong said during a prime-time offensive on Larry King Live. "No way." But the head of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) suggested the story might be credible. "I don't think, with the greatest respect, you can just say it's the French media again," WADA head Richard Pound said in an interview with TIME...