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...What are the greatest political threats facing Europe today? Cowardice. Unnecessary compromise that can harm our values. I often think what might have happened if the U.S. had not stood beside Europe and defeated fascism. We must not forget that terrorism has its roots in Europe's extremist politics. WW I began with an assassination, and after that we saw further terrorist attacks and the creation of terrorist states. This is the threat...
...affront to Iraqi Sunnis, as Saddam was hung minutes before the start of the Sunni holy festival of Eid. The result of the fiasco at the gallows is that across the Sunni world, Saddam, once anathema even to most Sunnis, is rapidly being transformed into a martyr who courageously stood up to a vengeful Shiite majority. Iraq’s Shiite-dominated government, and particularly Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who fast-tracked and oversaw Saddam’s execution, is squarely to blame. Instead of unity, Saddam’s execution has come to symbolize a deep fragmentation...
...sent to the general ballot is a second one-quarter vote from the Legislature.Supporters of the marriage ban argue that, since they acquired the required number of signatures for their petition, the Legislature has an obligation to rubber-stamp the amendment and send it to the people. They stood outside the Statehouse Tuesday, hearkening back to populist rhetoric with sanctimonious shouts of “Let the people vote!” But this is anything but an issue that should be decided by popular opinion. As the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) rightly ruled in 2004, marriage...
...cloudless afternoon early last fall, Honda CEO Takeo Fukui stood by his company's test track outside Tokyo and watched a group of journalists take the company's environmental future for a spin. After test-driving Honda's multimillion-dollar hydrogen-fuel-cell concept car--very, very carefully--I sat down with Fukui to talk about his company's big bet on clean automobiles. As a young engineer in 1972, Fukui designed the first engine capable of meeting the 1970 Clean Air Act's emission standards without a costly catalytic converter, making Honda one of the first car companies...
...heard the news as I stood outside the patients' ward of the field hospital at Camp Ramadi five days later. Three had been killed by a roadside bomb, we were told. McClung was among them. I had seen her briefly only the day before, and we had plans to meet that afternoon. But it was very late at night when I finally saw her resting in the morgue alongside her slain comrades, Spc. Vincent Pomante and Capt. Travis Patriquin. I watched at the edge of the room as the medics unzipped the body bags one by one before stepping forward...