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...what’s most vexing about the administration’s crackdown is its manner of interaction with student groups. The College has shown little-to-no interest in learning about the social situations and pressures students actually encounter, and how its policies might affect their circumstances. Instead, its modus operandi is to demand instant, mandatory meetings with group leaders, present them with vague accusations, and refuse to present specific or helpful evidence to deal with the “problem...

Author: By Daniel E. Herz-roiphe, Emma M. Lind, Joanna Naples-mitchell, Juliet S. Samuel, and Matthew L. Sundquist | Title: Cracking Down on Drinking | 10/12/2007 | See Source »

...from overhauling an outdated law, they say, Thailand's cultural guardians are finding new ways to suppress controversial films. Opponents also claim that the criteria for classification are intentionally vague. One sweeping clause in the draft legislation states that films should not "undermine social order or moral decency" or affect the "security and pride of the nation." And X-rated works are simply not allowed: under the proposed law, films classified as such must be either bowdlerized or banned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making the Cut | 10/11/2007 | See Source »

...course, symbols matter. Court cases dealing with Executive power over Guantánamo detainees will directly affect relatively few people, but such cases help strike the philosophical balance between security and human rights that is relevant to the entire nation and to America's place in the world. As Harvard professor Frederick Schauer pointed out in an influential recent law-review article, however, "most of the court's agenda lies some distance from the nation's." Compounding this is the fact that the court is tackling fewer cases than at any other time in the past half-century. Last term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Incredibly Shrinking Court | 10/11/2007 | See Source »

...controversially, offered an extraction device Rothman developed that could be used for at-home abortions in the early stages of pregnancy. The method angered medical professionals but, in the words of social critic Barbara Ehrenreich, "legitimized the notion that [women] have the right to ... decide about procedures ... that affect our bodies." Rothman was 75 and had cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Oct. 22, 2007 | 10/11/2007 | See Source »

...committee that calls the 1915 massacres of Armenians by Ottoman Turks a genocide. The measure passed on Wednesday despite extraordinary last-minute efforts by Bush Administration officials, including the President himself, to have it shelved out of concern that it could hurt relations with a key NATO ally and affect U.S. troops in Iraq. Seventy percent of American air cargo and a third of the fuel the U.S. uses in neighboring Iraq passes through the its air base in Incirlik in southern Turkey. Prior to the bill's passage, Turkish politicians had warned of possible retaliation by blocking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turkey Lashes Back at Genocide Vote | 10/11/2007 | See Source »

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