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...felt that we wished to affirm our Constitutional and intellectual commitment to a vigorous and independent willingness to encounter and if necessary debate divergent points of view,” Sacks wrote in an e-mail, “and we therefore decided to renew the invitation...
...remember today because in remembering the victims’ deaths, we affirm the value of their lives. “Too often,” writes Day of Remembrance founder Gwendolyn Ann Smith, “people want to make our dead into forgotten people.” Police investigations are often lax, and murders are carelessly catalogued as accidents or suicides. But the Day of Remembrance calls murder murder, and highlights the brutality of anti-transgender killers who attempt (in the words of one Day of Remembrance organizers) “to obliterate their victims, perhaps in an attempt...
...claims that 2.5 million people have "volunteered" to sweep streets and swab bicycle racks before the congress. Thousands of red flags line boulevards in the capital, and billboards in Tiananmen Square celebrate the "victorious opening" of the congress. By quietly putting up with the inanity of it all, Chinese affirm their acquiescence. Li Shuzhen is one such person. She lives in a stone house within sight of the Great Hall of the People, where the weeklong congress convenes. Local Party leaders made the residents of her neighborhood drape red flags next to their doors. She shrugs, "Everybody does...
...ACLU’s preemptive legal strategy aims at getting the court to affirm Edelman’s rights under the Declaratory Judgment Act, a federal statute that allows a judge to rule on a party’s rights in a legal controversy...
...Wahed said that he decided to affirm his heritage and not try to appease the mob, unlike his teenage days in Egypt...