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...Roper decision. “That carries no real authority with me. You have decisions that are made based on the political judgments of the justices.” Posner said that foreign law is based on different foundational documents and that justices generally choose to look abroad only to bolster their existing opinions. “Foreign judges do not have any sort of legitimacy in the American legal system,” Posner said. “And then there’s the pure opportunism of it. The Supreme Court only looks abroad to confirm its prejudices...
Harvard students studying abroad in France say that they have been generally unaffected by the recent rioting in the suburbs of Paris and cities across the country and have found themselves reassuring worried relatives back home. The reason, many said, was that they live and study in central Paris, which was left largely untouched by three weeks of violent confrontations between rioters and police. “I haven’t seen major panic in the Parisian streets, maybe because I live rather far away from where the disturbances that are taking place.” said Glenda Aldana...
Webmail is several grades trickier. Used by professors, recruiters, and parents alike, e-mail has become more formal since the original introduction of @aol.com—although it’s still a great way to communicate with friends abroad, sisters at work, and good-looking strangers that you meet on the subway during the commute to your summer internship and look very normal but could be axe-murderers. (While he turned out not to be violent, he was unhappily married, a slight turn-off I dare...
...Cohler on Clarinet” was considered one of “the best CDs of the year” by that same publication. This past summer, Cohler spent time in Taipei at the Second International Clarinet Festival of Taiwan. Much of Cohler’s time is spent abroad: he has showcased his musical talent in Venezuela, Brazil, and Portugal. As a member of the faculty at Cambridge’s Longy School of Music, Cohler is still tied to the Cambridge community. He is currently the Music Director and Conductor of the Brockton Symphony Orchestra and the assistant...
...more freedom to express themselves, to worship without state control, to print Bibles and other sacred texts without fear of punishment,? he said. ?We encourage China to continue down the road of reform and openness-because the freer China is at home, the greater the welcome it will receive abroad.? Bush also made big news, and likely rankled the Chinese, by praising Taiwan, over which Beijing hopes to restore control, for moving ?from repression to democracy? and creating a free society. ?In the 21st century, freedom is an Asian value-because it is a universal value,? he said...