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...said those things about Blacks and Jews and Hispanics, he would have been thrown out of the Meeting," she said, speaking about one members 'comments. "A lot of us felt like we couldn't be around him, and around a Meeting that would accept him," she said...
...that Clinton has thrown in with many others in the policy-making establishment who believe that certain problems--homelessness, poverty and drugs, among them--will always be with us, and thus, are unsolvable...
According to The New York Times, the court's rebuff of the latest challenge to its June ruling marks the only time in the past 20 years that a major abortion case has been thrown out the window. Will the court's decision to discard cases on abortion be a continuing trend? What do these actions signify for the abortion debate? Both pro-lifers and pro-choicers should be wary of a court that deems significant abortion cases irrelevant...
President Bush has thrown up his hands after reading the report from his PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION ON WOMEN IN THE MILITARY, and may reverse its ban on women in combat cockpits before sending the recommendations on to Congress. After a yearlong, $4 million study, the 15-member commission came up with several odd objections to women serving in combat. First of all, the report argues, women might be taken as prisoners of war. Servicewomen, who are asking for assignments in which they could be killed, have already said they are willing to risk imprisonment. The commission also insisted that if both...
...past 30 years, most Caribbean nations have been independent and, having thrown off the yoke of colonialism, have moved into attempts at economic self-sufficiency...