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...case pits two centuries-old truth-seeking institutions--the press and the grand jury--against each other in a battle with political and national security implications. Both Cooper and Miller are prepared to go to jail rather than reveal their sources' identities. Cooper, 42, has covered politics for more than a decade and has served as deputy chief of TIME's Washington bureau. "Protecting confidences is something that society grants to pastors, doctors, spouses, lawyers, even social workers," notes Cooper. "We believe journalists have a similar privilege." Miller, 57 and a 28-year veteran of the Times, argues that confidential...
...PROTECT US FROM RELIGIOUS fanatics of any faith who are convinced they know the truth and have a right to impose their beliefs on others. The narrowing of the separation of church and state in the U.S. is a frightening trend that conjures up images of religious persecution rather than religious freedom. It is a mystery to me how people who claim to be followers of Jesus can wage war, seek to disenfranchise those who differ from them, and justify torture...
...Baker wasn't being particularly diplomatic, but he was closer to the truth. As the six-party talks, which began in 2003, dragged on, the North appears to have become a greater military threat and proliferator of missiles (and possibly nuclear weapons technology) to rogue states. Underscoring the danger last week in testimony to the U.S. Congress, CIA Director Porter Goss declared that North Korean missiles have been improved to the point that one long-range version, the Taepo Dong-2, "is capable of reaching the U.S. with a nuclear weapon-sized payload...
...narrative latitude, these books can refer to real-world issues only obliquely. Ex Machina, however, does it directly and with wry humor. Mitchell comments on the limits to his heroic powers: “People blame me for Bush in his flight suit and Arnold getting elected governor. But truth is…those things would have happened with or without...
...within the bounds of academic inquiry—hardly an attractive image for a university whose motto is “Veritas.” Those characterizations would not, as I have tried to indicate, be a complete picture, but they would, I fear, contain an uncomfortable amount of truth...