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...think there was definitely a momentum shift,” Gannon said. “Once we got a goal, we had the confidence to keep going with it, and that was huge...
Khan, who is the first woman and first Muslim to head Amnesty International, challenged listeners to shift roles from being passive critics to actively cooperating with governments to address human rights concerns...
Panelist Chris Jochnick said that the expansion of human rights to include economic and social issues as well as civil and political ones presents new challenges for the movement. Finding solutions to those new issues will require “a fundamental shift in focus, including attention to forces coming from outside the traditional human rights movement,” said Jochnick, a Harvard law school graduate who cofounded the Center for Economic and Social Rights in New York...
What makes these new young voters such critical targets as we head into the final weeks is that many still haven’t made up their minds. According to the most recent Zogby Poll, 9 perent of young voters remain undecided and their allegiance continues to shift. While Senator Kerry led among the group for most of the year, tracking data in the last few days shows President Bush holding a slim 4 percent lead...
...Marines from Golf Company spot an abandoned car that looks suspicious. It's in a place where cars don't usually park, and pedestrians seem to be avoiding it. And it's on the route the Marines often use to return to their base at the end of their shift. The Marines summon the Iraqi police to take a look, but the cop car passes by several times without actually stopping to check out the vehicle. Frustrated, Lieut. Phillip Downs radios for permission to destroy the vehicle. Once he gets it, one of his men turns the abandoned car into...