Word: sectionalism
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...arrived on Friday in San Diego to address the first of five weekend workshops up and down the state. Outside the hotel where Perot spoke in San Diego, cars sported bumper stickers that read DON'T BLAME ME, I VOTED FOR PEROT. Inside, the 600 volunteers represented a cross-section of Americans disillusioned with both major parties: Shoshana Leiser, who "despises" Republicans as lapdogs of the rich but trusts Perot better than Clinton to take them on; Pauline Doane, a former conservative Republican who fears that the party has "sold out to the religious right"; Mario Minervini, a retired liquor...
...police are still dying to find out how he got a ticket to the “blue” VIP section on the West Lawn during the recent Presidential Inauguration. But Harvard Divinity School student Jeremiah Jenkins refused to reveal his secret, even to FM. This editor of HDS student publication “No Empire: A Journal of Conscience” has an agenda that does not include outing his sources...
...BOOK INCLUDES A SECTION ON ABU GHRAIB. WHAT'S THE CONNECTION? I've seen the death penalty up close, and I know it's the practice of torture. Anybody who is led to an execution chamber has shackles on their hands and feet. They've been kept in a room shorter than cells in Abu Ghraib, and for 15, 25 years...
Scherf held the lead at one point during the second loop around the course, but was overtaken as she moved onto the inclined section and finished with a time of 22:08.1—a full 11 seconds ahead of the seventh-place runner. The winner and national champion, Elizabeth Pasciuto of Colorado, completed the whole race...
Initially, military officials tried to prevent disclosure of the Saudi's story. When Saar, who spent 61/2 months at Guantnamo as a linguist and intelligence analyst, submitted the early draft of his manuscript to the military, as the confidentiality agreement he signed requires, Guantnamo officials marked the section about the Saudi for redaction, stamping it SECRET. The account, they advised the Pentagon, revealed interrogation methods and techniques that were classified. The Pentagon wrote back that if the Guantnamo officials could not cite solid legal grounds for censoring the material, the document would be cleared. The memo from...