1. THE WEEK.
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POLITICAL culture , *PRACTICAL politics , *NOMINATIONS for public office , *POLITICAL conventions , *SAME-sex marriage laws , *MARRIAGE licenses , *SARIN , *CHEMICAL warfare agents , *SEPTEMBER 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 , *EMERGENCY management , *TORTURE , *PRISONER abuse , *MARIJUANA , *THERAPEUTICS ,UNITED States politics & government, 2001-2009 - Abstract
Presents an overview of political events in the U.S. during the past week. Idea of the John Kerry campaign to hold a non-nominating Democratic Convention in July; Issuance of marriage licenses to same-sex couples in Massachusetts under court order; Detonation of a bomb with small amounts of the nerve agent sarin in Iraq near a U.S. military convoy; Response of former mayor Rudolph Giuliani to criticism of New York City's disaster-response plans by the 9/11 Commission; Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" film; Susan Sontag's essay on Abu Ghraib and torture during the War on Terror; Vermont's decision to permit some form of the medical use of marijuana; Others.
- Published
- 2004