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Editorial New Efforts to Undercut Health Reforms
Congressional Republicans are trying to exploit two controversies bedeviling the Obama administration to undermine the health care reform law. They are using an uproar over misguided tactics by Internal Revenue Service employees to target conservative political groups seeking tax-exempt status as an excuse to prohibit the agency from playing a pivotal role in carrying out the Affordable Care ...
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Editorial Why Is Russia Still Arming Syria
The slim hope generated two weeks ago when the United States and Russia announced plans for an international conference aimed at ending ...
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Denying Genocide Wont Promote Reconciliation
International trials for the most serious crimes do realize an important inherent good. While not necessarily bringing reconciliation or deterring future crimes in the short term, they can, by honoring victims, rendering justice and imposing punishment on the guilty, demonstrate the rule of law in the communities most affected by the crimes. And these trials signal that impunity for such crimes ...
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Op-Ed Columnist One Schools Catholic Teaching
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Op-Ed Columnist What Our Words Tell Us
About two years ago, the folks at Google released a database of 5.2 million books published between 1500 and 2008. You can type a search word into the database and find out how frequently different words were used at different epochs. The database ...
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Op-Ed Contributors Stop the Leaks
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Op-Ed Contributor The Outrageous Cost of a Gene Test
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Op-Ed Contributors Cul-de-Sac Poverty
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Politics in the Pub Education - the way forward
The Rod Brooks Memorial Forum. Hosted by the Blue Mountains Unions Council. Speakers: Kenneth Davidson - Senior economic columnist, Melbourne Age Jude Pearce - Sydney university student Genevieve Kelly - NSW secretary, National Tertiary Education Union 2.30-4.30pm Saturday June 1 Blackburn's Family Hotel, 15 Parke St, ...
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Editorial Obama’s weak record on freedom of the press
The Obama administration’s galling record on press freedom requires a reset of the balance between journalists and national security ...
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Editorial Bellevue Council needs clarity on ethics rules
The Bellevue City Council has spent two years in search of a code of ethics policy. Public trust hinges on how soon the council acts on a proposed ethics ...
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Editorial Return of anti-gay crime is disturbing
Photo credit: Makeshift memorial where Marc Carson was killed in an alleged hate crime Saturday/Sheila Anne Feeney In the heart of Greenwich Village, just a few blocks from the Stonewall Inn, where the gay rights revolution began, a gay man was killed in a disturbing bias crime last weekend -- one that's sending deep shudders through a community that has recently made tremendous strides ...
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Editorial Gay marriage is a large liberal step
For all our liberality, Britain still has a way to go. Last weekend - ironically, just one day after the International Day Against Homophobia - two gay men were attacked in a south London park. Then, yesterday, more than a handful of MPs lined up to resist government plans to allow same-sex couples to marry. The two are, of course, not linked; it would be fatuous - not to say, unfair - to ...
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In praise of … the Tim takeoff | Editorial
never graced a Labour MP . But as the first astronaut who will spacewalk with bona fide British credentials, he can surely achieve a Tim take-off. Not every namesake will scale the same giddying popularity peaks, but for all a page will be turned - opening, what ...
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Syria no place for back-seat drivers | Editorial
Iran and Hezbollah to relinquish their support for Bashar Assad, in favour of a transitional regime that would offer guarantees to the minority Alawite community, that has now been answered.Whatever happens in the town of Qusair, both Hezbollah and Iran are now signalling that Assad's fate has become a matter of existential survival for them, too. The regime's victory, or defeat, will ...
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Conservative party a spiral of irrelevance | Editorial
What, and for whom, does today's - and tomorrow's - Conservative party stand? In various periods in the past, it has been possible to answer that question with some clarity. Before 1832, the party stood for the landed interest. After 1867, it added the flag, the union and the shopkeeper too. In the first half of the 20th century, the Tories were for empire and against socialism. After ...
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Syria’s River of Death
clashing along the frontline. Mohammed’s problem was that the frontline ran between the two places where he was buying and selling the clothes for his shop. So one morning in early March, Mohammed set out toward government-controlled territory, through checkpoints and the no-man’s land separating the two fighting forces, to buy merchandise. Many people cross the frontlines this way ...
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More must be done to aid the victims of Indias violence
It took two decades for justice to prevail after bomb attacks in Mumbai in March 1993, which injured hundreds and killed 257. Last month, India's Supreme Court ruled on the final appeals in a long trial process. But in another episode of brutality in Mumbai, the wait for justice will be much longer. The 1993 bombings were in retaliation for anti-Muslim riots in Mumbai a few months ...
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Losing arguments on the Internet
In Scottsdale, Ariz., there is a restaurant so far gone that even Gordon Ramsay’s shouting cannot save it. In fact, the owners of Amy’s Baking Company so terrified the man behind "Kitchen Nightmares" that he decided to quit working with them rather than endure them any longer. If you haven’t visited the nooks of the Internet where discussion of this has been bouncing ...
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How Baghdad Fuels Iraqs Sectarian Fire
The Iraqi government has hurled the country to the brink of a new civil war. In under a month, Baghdad launched a vicious assault on a Sunni protest camp, resulting in 44 deaths; executed 21 alleged Sunni terrorists in one day, and suspended the licenses of 10 satellite channels, 9 of them deemed pro-Sunni. Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki’s message to his country’s extremely ...
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If all options are open why not prosecute Abu Qatada in the UK
Listening to Theresa May’s statement to Parliament today, it seems the British government is leaving no stone unturned in its efforts to deport Abu Qatada to Jordan to face terrorism charges. A new treaty with Jordan aims to address the risk that Abu Qatada, who has already been convicted in his absence there, would be tried again using torture-tainted evidence. The main problem in Jordan, ...
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Russia The Day the Inspectors Came
This is how it is in today's Russia, one year since Vladimir Putin returned to the presidency. Over the last twelve months, the authorities have introduced a sweeping set of restrictive new laws. In addition to raids on nongovernmental groups, they are harassing, intimidating and imprisoning political activists. Government critics and even charities that can in no way be thought of as ...
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The Dark Side of Irans Drug Policy
How Iran Won the War on Drugs ," Amir Afkhami argues that the Iranian government has been successful in addressing the country’s drug problem by treating dependency and reducing the harm drugs cause, rather than by cracking down on supply. Afkhami further suggests that Iran is a model for the region, and that nearby countries such as Afghanistan have much to learn from its ...
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Is American democracy in trouble
We know American politics are dysfunctional. But after a week of scandal obsession during which the nation's capital and the media virtually ignored the problems most voters care about -- jobs, incomes, growth, opportunity, education -- it's worth asking if there is something especially flawed about our democracy. Our circumstances certainly have their own particular disabilities: a ...
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Saving the White House from faux scandals
Here’s the White House view of the current trilogy of so-called scandals: Republicans are trying to destroy President Barack Obama’s second term by magnifying bureaucratic miscues and distorting policy realities. This isn’t without some merit. On none of these issues - the deadly debacle at the U.S. diplomatic outpost in Libya, the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of ...
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