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Post/View Reader Comments Thursday, July 2, 2009 Bragging in Iraq Tuesday was a national holiday in Iraq, replete with parades and fireworks hailing the withdrawal of U.S forces from the country's cities. Although some Iraqis viewed the milestone warily, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was effusive in reasserting Iraq's sovereignty. In a nationally televised address, he said, "The national united government succeeded in putting down the sectarian war that was threatening the unity and the sovereignty of Iraq." Wednesday, July 1, 2009 Racial preferences, again Wading afresh into the legal thicket of racial preferences, the Supreme Court held Monday that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., suffered discrimination when the city voided a promotion exam on which they outperformed black colleagues. Writing for the 5-4 majority, Justice Anthony Kennedy said that the city's fears of litigation from the disappointed minority were insufficient reason to nullify the test results. All the justices agreed that employers should continue voluntary efforts to ensure that tests are fair and don't discriminate, but the majority concluded that once the exams are administered, the results cannot be invalidated simply because the outcome is adverse to any group.
Letters Editor Northern Virginia Daily Tuesday, June 30, 2009 Madoff gets life "Throw the book at him" is the legendary plaint of victims and the public outraged at some especially egregious crime. On Monday Judge Denny Chin did just that, sentencing Bernard Madoff to 120 years in prison, the maximum for perpetrating one of the biggest investment frauds in Wall Street history. Monday, June 29, 2009 Stimulus helps out spenders By Chris Fordney cfordney@nvdaily.com Saturday, June 27, 2009 The School Board ducks The Warren County School Board was in an admittedly touchy spot about choosing a name for the county's new middle school. But in opting to call the renovated building "Warren County Middle School" the board dodged an important issue for the county: How will it finally acknowledge and offer some form of reckoning for its role in the fight over school integration? For several years the School Board has been under pressure from James M. Kilby to name a school for his father, the late James W. Kilby, who went to court to force Warren County High School to admit black students during "massive resistance," the effort to block integration. Others wanted the renovated school to be named for Quincy Damon Gasque, a longtime educator who oversaw both the closing of county schools to prevent the enrollment of blacks and their later integration. Thursday, June 25, 2009 Bullying ahead in Iran The protests and clashes continue in Iran although their scope and significance are shrouded by the government's determined efforts to restrict coverage of the mayhem. Hundreds of political figures, journalists and professors deemed insufficiently loyal to the regime have been arrested or cowed into silence as the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, moves swiftly to crush the unrest and certify the landslide victory of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Although Mir Hussein Moussavi, the rival candidate, has not appeared publicly in a week, Zahra Rahnavard, his wife and herself a political activist, called for the release of those arrested. Wednesday, June 24, 2009 Carnage on the subway The deadly, horrid collision of two Metro subway cars on Monday hit home not only because of the TV coverage that blanketed the area but also because many of us have ridden the D.C. subway system. It is an efficient, cost-effective way to flit around the city, but the scenes of carnage were a vivid reminder of the risks, albeit small and random, that lurk whenever people venture out. Tuesday, June 23, 2009 The court sidesteps A challenge to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was widely expected to be the most important ruling of the Supreme Court's term, but the justices instead sidestepped the question of its constitutionality. During oral argument last spring a majority of the justices seemed hostile to the law — or at least inclined to view it as having served its purpose of ending racial discrimination at polling places. Saturday, June 20, 2009 Letters Editor Northern Virginia Daily Friday, June 19, 2009 A reform hodge-podge While President Obama decries the "wild risk-taking" and "lack of oversight" that precipitated the financial meltdown and its severe economic consequences, his remedy is more hodge-podge than systemic reform. Indeed, the president basically concedes the point by asserting that his plan aims to "pinpoint the structural weaknesses that allowed for this crisis." Wednesday, June 17, 2009 The health-care scrum The stepped-up debate about health-care reform heralds the beginning of congressional consideration of specific proposals. A Senate committee will hold a public drafting session today, but its plan, championed by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, suffered a setback when the Congressional Budget Office estimated that it would cost $1 trillion over 10 years and still leave millions of Americans uninsured. Wednesday, June 17, 2009 Letters Editor Northern Virginia Daily Tuesday, June 16, 2009 Turmoil in Iran Hundreds of thousands of Iranians marched silently through the streets of Tehran on Monday in the largest antigovernment demonstration since the Islamic revolution deposed the shah in 1979. The mute protest was a stark contrast to the violence that has flared since the government declared President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad re-elected in a landslide only two hours after the polls closed on Friday. Monday, June 15, 2009 Report entered in crash By Chris Fordney -- Daily Columnist cfordney@nvdaily.com |
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