Majority of Public Gives Good Marks to 9/11 Panel

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2. Guest Commentary by Martin L. Taylor:

Do What I Say, and What I Do!

One mother's actions can have more impact than a thousand parents' lectures. Here's an example I heard recently that shook a town to its roots 25 years ago and made tsunami-like waves all over the state....

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3. What They're Saying:

Documents Missing

"When I was informed by the archives that there were documents missing, I immediately returned everything I had except for a few documents that I apparently had accidentally discarded."

-- Former Clinton-administration national security advisor Sandy Berger, trying to quell a storm of speculation last week over his removal of several documents and personal notes from the National Archives....

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4. U.S. Government Continues to Face Tough Questions over Iraq

WASHINGTON

Despite the official return of Iraq to local governance, the United States last week continued to feel the fallout for various practices and abuses stemming from the Iraqi war and occupation....

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5. Judge Clears Deutsche Bank Chief in Mannesman Probe

DUESSELDORF, Germany

Ending a criminal trial that had morphed into a forum on a country's corporate ethics, a German judge last week acquitted six former Mannesman executives of breaching their duty to shareholders by approving high executive pay packages....

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6. India's High Court Demands End to Delay in Bhopal Pay-Out

BHOPAL, India

After years of dragging its feet, India's government was ordered last week to end its legal wrangling and make immediate plans to disburse nearly $330 million to victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy....

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7. U.S. Death Penalty for Juveniles Criticized by International Community

WASHINGTON

Dozens of nations, Nobel Peace prize winners, legal and health organizations, religious groups, and former government officials last week urged the U.S. Supreme Court to ban the practice of executing teenage killers, calling the custom inhumane....

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8. Eight States Sue Power Producers for Contributing to Global Warming

NEW YORK

Eight states and New York City last week sued some of the nation's largest power producers, saying the plants' emissions are hastening global warming and threatening their citizens, economies, and environments....

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9. Federal Agency Failing in Firearms Inspections, Audit Finds

WASHINGTON

The federal agency in charge of making sure gun dealers operate legally is way behind in its inspection process and lax in reporting even serious violations, according to a Justice Department audit released last week....

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10. British PM Pushes Civility Plan to Cut Crime

LONDON

Saying decades of focusing on offenders' rights had created a culture of leniency, British Prime Minister Tony Blair last week announced a five-year plan to combat crime and improve public civility....

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11. Republicans' Help for Nader Raises Questions

LANSING, Michigan

In an apparent contest between political ideology and electoral pragmatism, U.S. presidential candidate Ralph Nader last week said he would accept Republican help to get on the November ballot in Michigan....

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12. Cross-Border Water Pact Could Leave U.S. South Dry

TORONTO

The "Globe & Mail" is reporting that eight U.S. states and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec have established a preliminary agreement to prevent large-scale water exports from the Great Lakes....

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13. Research Report:

9/11 Commission has Broad Support

From the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:

"The public broadly approves of the performance of the 9/11 commission in investigating the events that led to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. By more than two-to-one (61 percent - 24 percent), Americans approve of the job being done by the commission...."

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14. Quote from the Ethics File:

Live with Honor

"The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them."

-- Socrates (Greek philosopher, 470? - 399 B.C.E.)

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