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Everybody in Europe and the US should have their genetic fingerprints entered into an international database to enable law enforcement agencies to fight crime and terrorism in an unstable world, according to James Watson, the co-discoverer of the DNA double helix.

The CIA has started a new advertising campaign to recruit Chinese-Americans as spies and analysts, as part of an effort to improve its operations against China.

 Beginning this week, some Asian-oriented publications and newspapers in cities with large Chinese-American communities will run CIA advertisements, which call on Americans of Asian descent to help the agency to stay "true to our global focus." 

Timed to coincide with the Chinese New Year, which began Saturday, the ad features a painting of a ram and the Mandarin characters for “Happy New Year.”

This is hardly surprising. Saddam’s propaganda is intended to have the world think that the Iraqi people are behind him. Of course, Iraqis who think otherwise are keeping their mouths shut.

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The 15-4 NATO vote shows that most of Europe support the action against Saddam; in a likelihood the other two regimes which voted “no” have Leftist governments.

The statement we published last week from eight European leaders in support of U.S. Iraq policy has caused much consternation, especially in France and Germany but also among American media ethicists. How delightful, and instructive.

Our sin seems to be that we assisted in exposing as fraudulent the conventional wisdom that France and Germany speak for all of Europe, and that all of Europe is now anti-American. Those ideas were always false, but they were peddled as true because they served the political purposes of those, both in Europe and America, who oppose President Bush on Iraq.

The notion that France and Germany speak for all of Europe is especially absurd, akin to assuming that New York City and Washington, D.C., speak for all of America. Down in the polls, German leader Gerhard Schröder barely speaks for a majority in his own country. The fact that France's Jacques Chirac threw him some anti-American political cover is news, but still a dog-bites-man story of Gallic hauteur. The vote in NATO on helping the U.S. in Iraq was after all 15-4 in favor, with the other opponents being the global powers of Belgium and Luxembourg.

The dovish Powell’s patience has apparently run out.

The question here is whether the resolution authorizing the war on terrorism was against terror-sponsoring regimes in general or specifically the Al Quaeda/Taliban regime in Afghanistan. Bush should have made this clear so that everyone would know that the Democrats were backing down when they came out in opposition to action against Saddam.

And as Micah Morrison detailed in September, Laurie Mylroie alleges Iraqi connections to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing; for starters, Iraq harbors Abdul Yasin, wanted for helping to make the bomb. And Jayna Davis, a former reporter who covered the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, documented repeated phone calls from conspirator Terry Nichols to a Philippine boarding house frequented by Islamic militants.

The tantalizing hints that Saddam may have been behind the Oklahoma City bombing.

A flurry of messages followed. The one I remember most clearly came from a man who'd taken it on himself to walk up to the library to see what was going on. Our worries were overblown, he reported. The kids were only smoking pot and having sex.

Nicholson apparently is too ill-informed to realize that promiscuity is practicing what King did, not what he said.

Some whites are afraid to criticize black kids' behavior because they're afraid of being called prejudiced. They're aided and abetted by blacks who, claiming that antisocial behavior is an authentic expression of black culture, condemn those who want only to come and go without being harassed or exposed to inappropriate behavior as oppressors of that culture.

Is “antisocial behavior is an authentic expression of black culture?” If so, it could be used as a justification for segregation. One wonders if the integrationists erred in claiming that black culture was the same as that of whites.

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Take, for example, the state's smallest school system, 60-student Witts Springs in Searcy County, an isolated outpost perched in the Ozarks.

Despite spending more than $11,000 annually per pupil -- almost twice the state average -- its high school graduation rate was 50 percent last year. It pays its teachers, 25 percent of whom are not certified, $10,000 less per year than the state average. The high school doesn't offer the required units of art, music or choir, according to a study compiled by the Blue Ribbon Commission.

Witts Springs may be protected from consolidation by its geographical isolation, but there are other districts with similar problems.

Hate crime bills are intended to diminish the legal rights of those who aren’t in the protected groups and create two classes of citizens.

In practice they aren’t applied even-handedly. For all practical purposes white crimes against blacks are “hate crimes” while black crimes against whites aren’t.

• A black couple in Newport lost their life savings when their new business was burned to the ground by arsonists who wrote “No Nigers” (that's how they spelled it) in the charred remains of the building.

• A Jewish community menorah was destroyed by vandals who also spray-painted anti-Semitic slurs and scattered hate literature at area synagogues.

After months of verbal harassment, an openly gay high school student was brutally beaten in Fayetteville by a group of 8 young men who yelled “The only good queer is a dead queer.”

Larry Page, executive director of the Arkansas Faith and Ethics Council, which represents conservative church groups, opposed the hate-crime bill in '01 and will do so again. Page is also a former deputy prosecuting attorney in Pulaski County.

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