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(04/23/03 9:00am)
There may be a new passenger on your next airline flight: a .40-caliber semiautomatic pistol. This past weekend, 46 airline pilots became the first graduates of the Transportation Security Administration's self-defense and firearms training course. After completing the week-long class, conducted at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Georgia, the pilots went back to their planes -- packing heat. Thousands more pilots are expected to enroll in the new program, the product of post-9/11 legislation allowing pilots to carry guns in the cockpit. Now air travelers will be safer as a result.
(04/09/03 9:00am)
When Tiger Woods tees it up tomorrow at Augusta National, he can add another line to his already remarkable list of accomplishments. With another victory at the Masters, Woods can become the only golfer ever to claim the green jacket three years in a row. For golf fans and all general sports enthusiasts, this weekend will provide an opportunity to watch some great golf, see the game's brightest star at his best and -- potentially -- witness history in the making.
(04/01/03 10:00am)
The Iraqi people have become a popular topic in the debate over war in Iraq. Protestors on both sides claim to speak for innocent Iraqis, who have suffered so much at the hands of Saddam Hussein, and who must now cope with the dangers of an invasion. But one voice has been missing from the war discussion: the real voice of the Iraqi people.
(03/03/03 11:00am)
We hear constantly about the strategy of the current crisis in Iraq. These concerns about national security lead a majority of Americans -- 54 percent, according to the latest Time magazine poll -- to favor invading Iraq. However, recent large protests throughout the western world demonstrate that arguments centered around security leave others unconvinced.
(02/17/03 11:00am)
There will be war in Iraq. Barring a stunning, last-minute reversal -- a complete coup in Baghdad that ousts not just Saddam Hussein but his entire loathsome regime -- the United States and a coalition of allies will disarm Iraq by force. This outcome is nigh-inevitable; the question is no longer why war or if war, but when war.
(02/03/03 11:00am)
America's conflict with Iraq now approaches the endgame. On Feb. 5 -- two days from today -- Secretary of State Colin Powell will go before the United Nations Security Council to make, for the final time, the case for war with Iraq. Powell will reveal classified U.S. intelligence to prove that Iraq still owns weapons of mass destruction and is evading U.N. weapons inspections, and thus is in breach of U.N. resolutions demanding disarmament. Three months later, the U.N. Conference on Disarmament will hold its 25th anniversary session in Geneva. The disarmament conference is the branch of the United Nations that negotiated the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and the conventions restricting chemical and biological weapons. The nation that will serve as chair of the U.N. disarmament conference is Iraq.
(01/21/03 11:00am)
President Bush announced last week that his administration filed briefs in two Supreme Court cases opposing the University of Michigan's race-based admissions guidelines. Bush's move was a bold one coming on the heels of the Trent Lott debacle; with his opponents eager to play the race card, Bush gambled politically by speaking out personally against affirmative action. His decision was not just brave, it was also principled and fair and ought to give education reformers hope.
(01/09/03 11:00am)
Among the many cases on the Supreme Court docket, one pair of lawsuits threatens to ignite a firestorm over diversity, race and higher education. Briefs in Gratz v. Bollinger and Grutter v. Bollinger, a pair of legal challenges to the University of Michigan's race-based admissions guidelines (for the undergraduate and law programs, respectively), are due in a few weeks. How the court rules on these cases will likely set legal precedent for colleges across the nation.
(11/11/02 11:00am)
Anyone who turned on the TV last Tuesday night got a rare chance to watch history in the making. Even the cable news pundits -- who are not usually at a loss for words -- struggled to find precedent for the GOP's midterm electoral romp, which marked the first time that a first-term president's party gained seats in both houses of Congress in a midterm election since Teddy Roosevelt occupied the Oval Office.
(10/29/02 11:00am)
While it's a stretch to state that any good can come from North Korea's recent revelation that it possesses a nuclear bomb, at least Pyongyang's surprise announcement of nuclear prowess serves to drive home an important geopolitical point: governments -- especially those of the backward, autocratic persuasion -- lie. They lie a lot.
(10/09/02 9:00am)
If the current tensions between the United States and Iraq weren't so deadly serious, the situation would be downright comical. It has all the makings of a Shakespearian farce: George W. Bush's impish smirk, hand-wringing diplomats at an impotent United Nations and Saddam Hussein's almost daily reversals on weapons inspection. Only the looming threat of an Iraqi nuclear attack intervenes to kill the humor.
(10/01/02 9:00am)
That public speakers in America will reference terrorism at every opportunity is now a given. It is a reflex reaction -- put any group of luminaries behind a podium, squeeze them and the words "September 11" will pop out.