The United States and the World

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2. Commentary by Rushworth M. Kidder:

A Civil Debate in a Nasty Campaign

By most accounts, it's been a negative presidential campaign, full of low-road ads and biting attacks. So when last Thursday's presidential debate gave us a glimpse of civility, it came as a welcome surprise. For a brief, radiant moment toward the end of the debate, President Bush and Senator Kerry laughed with, rather than at, each other....

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3. What They're Saying:

Open, Public, and Transparent

"This is an excellent opportunity for EPA to fully consider -- in an open, public, and transparent manner -- the environmental impact of proposed ... changes at varying levels."

-- Nikki Tinsley, inspector general of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in a report released last week concluding that policy changes by the current administration have harmed efforts to cut air pollution....

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4. U.S. Considers Deporting Terrorism Suspects to Countries that Torture

WASHINGTON

The U.S. House of Representatives last week took another step toward allowing the transfer of suspected terrorists to countries where they would likely be tortured -- a shift that would violate international law and U.S. treaty obligations....

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5. Part of Patriot Act Struck Down as Unconstitutional

WASHINGTON

A federal judge last week struck down part of the controversial USA Patriot Act, saying the government cannot block companies from challenging the legality of government demands for people's private data....

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6. Tom DeLay Rebuked by House Ethics Committee

WASHINGTON

The House Ethics Committee publicly admonished House majority leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) last week for allegedly offering political favors to a fellow congressman in exchange for that congressman's support of a Medicare reform law last year....

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7. Chinese Government in 'Life and Death' Struggle with Corruption

BEIJING

Saying government corruption had created a crisis of public confidence, the Communist Party of China last week said it was facing a "life and death" struggle that could only be solved by holding to ethics....

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8. Harvard Struggles Again with Plagiarism Accusations

BOSTON

Renowned legal scholar Laurence Tribe last week became the latest Harvard professor to face criticism for plagiarism, admitting that he inadvertently copied text from a respected book on the Supreme Court....

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9. IBM Settles Part of Pension Dispute for $320 Million

CHICAGO

IBM last week agreed to pay $320 million to settle several legal claims stemming from the company's decision to switch pension plans in the mid-1990s, a change many older workers contend was discriminatory....

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10. Canadian Spam King in U.S. Courts for Infesting Email Inboxes

KITCHENER, Ontario

The "Globe & Mail" is reporting that Eric Head, a much-reviled Canadian spam king who promised to quit sending unwanted bulk emails, is being sued by U.S. companies for sending hundreds of millions of messages about cable descramblers, penis enlargers, and debt assistance....

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11. Research Report:

'Foreign Policy Attitudes Now Driven by 9/11 and Iraq'

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

"For the first time since the Vietnam era, foreign affairs and national security issues are looming larger than economic concerns in a presidential election. The Sept. 11 attacks and the two wars that followed not only have raised the stakes for voters as they consider their choice for president, but also have created deep divisions and conflicting sentiments over U.S. foreign policy in a troubled time...."

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12. Quote from the Ethics File:

The Brave Thinkers

"The progress of the world depends upon the men who walk in the fresh furrows and through the rustling corn; upon those whose faces are radiant with the glare of furnace fires; upon the delvers in mines, and the workers in shops; upon those who give to the Winter air the ringing music of the axe; upon those who battle with the boisterous billows of the sea; upon the inventors and discoverers; upon the brave thinkers."

-- Robert Ingersoll (U.S. lawyer and orator, 1833-1899