NEVER let it be said that the U.S. State Department lacks chutzpah.
The department recently issued its annual report on human rights practices of nations around the world, pointedly criticizing perennial violators as well as allies, including the U.S.-sponsored interim Iraqi government.
SEN. Arlen Specter has some good advice for President Bush: Pick up the phone, talk to the Senate Democrats and find a Supreme Court nominee who is "universally accepted" by both parties.
THE United States Supreme Court has reminded California and its prison system that integration not segregation is the law of the land.
That is as it should be. The sins of racial segregation have technically been exorcised from our legal codes and policies.
THE good folks in San Luis Obispo County think the body odor matter has been blown out of proportion, and maybe theyre right. But mentioning BO in a new county ordinance detailing the no-nos of library behavior well, it kind of gets your attention.
IN 1992, before delivering the Supreme Courts ruling in an abortion case, Justice Anthony Kennedy, who has a penchant for self-dramatization, stood with a journalist observing rival groups of demonstrators and mused: Some- times you dont know if youre Caesar about to
AS Martha Stewart leaves prison, she walks into the arms of a media circus and a commercial juggernaut that promises to turn what would be a shameful moment for anyone else into a triumph of marketing.