Pamlico County Ordinance Signals Morality Over Market Forces
Pamlico County Commissioners tentatively approve an ordinance restricting adult businesses, adding morality to the usual concerns of public health and safety. The piece questions effectiveness, noting a market soft enough to deter such ventures and urging caution about restricting private property use.
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Mlico County
Pamlico
Bayboro
Pamlico County
Craven County
Jones County
Onslow County
China's mistreatment of Wu sparks global reflection
The article argues that China's harsh handling of Harry Wu elevated him to an international human rights figure. It notes his arrest at the China Kazakhstan border, incommunicado detention, a forced confession, and a secret kangaroo trial ending in 15 years’ prison plus expulsion. It suggests Wu’s case could push China toward a saner world approach.
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China
Harry Wu
Tiananmen Square
Taiwan
Party of Nations
Kazakhstan
Cognoscenti
CNN
U.S
United States
Beasley Drops Southeast Compact Over Waste Disposal
North Carolina and South Carolina clash over regional low level radioactive waste disposal. Governor Beasley withdraws South Carolina from the Southeast Compact, citing delays and political wrangling as North Carolina faces a Wake and Chatham county landfill decision. John Hood of the John Locke Foundation weighs in on the broader political and economic issues.
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Raleigh
South Carolina
David Beasley
Palmetto
Barnwell County
Washington
Nevada
Congress
North
South Dakota
Texas
Maine
Vermont
Virginia
North Carolina
Tennessee
Mississippi
Alabama
Georgia
Florida
Wake
Chatham Counties
Beasley
Barnwell
Duke University
North Caroli
The
American Medical Association
John Hood
John Locke Foundation
Wake- Chatham
Fulbright Biographers Clash Over Racism and Snobbery
Paul Greenberg argues in the Arkansas Democrat that J William Fulbright was not a racist but a snob whose foreign policy realism and political caution reflected elite bias. He contrasts this with Randall Woods view that the Arkansas senator was a racist, noting Fulbright's anti Semitism and detente stance amid Cold War pressures.
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Randall Woods
Lee Powell
J. William Fulbright
Arkansas
Professor Woods
Powell
Fulbright
Vietnam
Foreign Office
Henry Kissinger
Joe McCarthy
Paul Greenberg
The
Arkansas Democrat
Gazette
Little Rock
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Britain
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Cecil Rhodes
Oxford
Europe
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