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What George W. Bush should say

Cover Story | The Republican presidential candidate can expose the radical position of his pro-abortion opponent-and begin to move public opinion in the right direction-if he would give a speech along the following lines » by Hadley Arkes I'm saddened to learn of the decision announced by the Supreme Court on the law in Nebraska dealing with partial-birth abortions. The American people, in about 30 states, made use of the democratic process to protect children at the point of birth from one of the

Supreme arrogance

Cover Story | "Illogical," "indefensible," "quite simply absurd": Those were some of the words expressed inside the Supreme Court by some of its own members after a thin 5-4 majority voted to expand abortion rights to include virtual infanticide. But as the high court last week closed out a controversial 2000 term with its most closely watched decisions (Miranda rights, hate crimes, Boy Scouts, school choice), rain fell outside-as did the tears of those who lost

In this issue: "Supreme arrogance," July 8, 2000

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State schools über alles

International |  European homeschoolers-few in number-face inspections, fines, and in one family's case, a police raid

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Dot competition

National |  Reining in the cybersquatters and taking Windows beyond desktops in the race for digital convergence

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Is resistance futile?

National |  "Futile-care theory": Critics say new standards for medical care put U.S. medicine on a slippery slope

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Classic Clintonism

National |  'Well, let me define the term raising': Gore rips a page out of his boss's scandal playbook

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TV's fickle 'fever pitch'

National |  The political furor over Texas' death penalty

Dispatches

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No-Comment Zone

America's nuclear secrets are seemingly as safe as the contents of a breakroom microwave. Two 10-year-old floppy disks containing classified information were…

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Ups & Downs of the Week

CONSUMER CONFIDENCE: Rising interest rates and soaring gasoline prices dropped the Consumer Confidence Index for a loss in June-showing that, psychologically…

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The Buzz

GENOME PROJECT RAISES HOPES, FEARS Copying the human script Two rival groups of scientists have announced that the race to decode the human genome has…

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Quotables

There was a perception in the country that I was some sort of aloof, remote federal judge who was arrogating a great deal of power to himself. U.S. District…

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Video Rentals

Culture |  The top 5 videos in popularity as measured by rental receipts for the week ended June 18

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A virtual red-light district

Culture |  Policing online porn by giving it a ".sex" domain misses the point

Voices

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Hardly a surprise

Predicting big changes for how we do our reading

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Mailbag

Like Elián Thank you for telling me about Elián Gonzalez ("No hearing for Elián," June 10). I pray that God will turn his father's heart to his son and…

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Patrick Henry's idea

One way to bring life to the naked public square

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