Further north are squares or circles honoring John Logan, George Thomas, James MacPherson, George McClellan, Philip Sheridan, David Farragut and Samuel du Pont, all Civil War heros. This Memorial Day we again remember those who have fallen defending our country. For the first time since senators have been popularly elected, party control of the U.S. Senate has been changed by a mechanism other than an election. As a Memorial Day gift to the men and women who served and fought to rid the world of dictators and arbitrary rule, Congress' vote last week to stop all judicial and administration review of the World War II Memorial on Washington's Mall may carry more than a touch of irony. But it was no less heartfelt or appropriate.
Nuclear power is out of the political closet.
President Bush's new energy plan supports new nuclear generating plants. So do national polls. Graduation message NBA star Vince Carter is a good model for his colleagues, others Toronto Raptors forward Vince Carter may have missed the final shot Sunday that would have beaten the Philadelphia 76ers and sent his team to the next round of the NBA playoffs, but he had already scored an important victory before he even took the floor. By traveling early Sunday to the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, to collect his diploma, Carter kept a promise to his mother, who wanted him to graduate from college even though he entered the 1998 NBA draft after his junior year. Long Beach Press Telegram Effects of a defection Like most big political events, the recent defection of a small-state U.S. senator from the Republican Party has excited mostly the members of the governing classes.