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Since last summer, the Pentagon has been conducting reviews of each of the 567 post-9/11 detainees being held at the U.S. naval base in Guant??namo Bay to determine whether they should continue to be designated "enemy combatants"--and thus subject to indefinite detention during wartime. U.S. officials tell TIME the tribunals have recommended that more than 36 of these detainees be reclassified as "nonenemy combatants"--in other words, free...
...mother would have told him, "When they were passing out moderation, you were hiding behind the door." The son of a plumber, Thomas grew up in Orange County, Calif. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees in political science from San Francisco State University and then taught the subject at a Bakersfield, Calif., community college. In 1978 he won a congressional seat from Bakersfield and, on arriving in Washington, roomed with another college professor who had decided to enter politics, Newt Gingrich. Like Gingrich, he ached to be a House leader. After Republicans gained control of the House...
...sitting in the Oak Grove Baptist Church in Gray, TN, trying to look like I belonged there. The pastor, Ronnie Brashear, was talking about “sowing the seed” of Christianity in the community. But the subject of his sermon wasn’t what impressed me. Brashear had an amazing ability to get everybody involved. He didn’t berate the congregation, but when he said “amen” he wanted you to say it and mean...
...other science concentrators are puzzled, as I was, by the spate of news about Larry Summers’ recent remarks on women in science. As Head Tutor in Physics and Chemistry and Physics, I thought it might be appropriate to pass along some of my own views on the subject...
...Wade recognized that the right to privacy included the right to terminate a pregnancy (subject to certain limitations). The entire foundation of the right to privacy is freedom to make choices about reproduction. The right to privacy was first recognized in Griswold v. Connecticut in 1965 when the Supreme Court found unconstitutional a Connecticut criminal law which prohibited the use of contraceptives by anyone (including a married couple). The only constitutional basis under which Roe v. Wade can be overturned is with a decision that the liberty protected by the constitution does not include the right to privacy...