In her April 12, 2001, column in The Washington Post , ominously entitled “ Think of the Children ,” Mary McGrory concludes that the government should help out more. She relates the story Elizabeth “Cookie” Jones of Washington, a young single mother of three who was profiled by Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Katherine Boo in the
“The ‘tomb robber,’ otherwise known as the archaeological entrepreneur, is the true and sole legitimate owner.” Tomb robbing might at first appear to be incontrovertibly wrong. But, as with all questions involving property rights, it needs to be asked: Who is it that is really being robbed? The Ukrainian government, for one, believes that the
In response to the Code Red computer worm, CNET News Executive Editor David Coursey , in his column entitled Cure for Code Red: An Internet border patrol? advocates some measures that, while they may be intended to prevent future outbreaks, would instead ensure a further diminution of our freedoms. Stating that “if our homes were as much under
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