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...precaution, the Berkman Center requires users to consent to an additional agreement: blogs that are tastelessly controversial might not be welcome on its servers...
...It’s a risk, but it’s a risk worth taking,” Lamberg-Karlovsky said of the new agreement. “I think the world is always enhanced by the open nature of collaboration...
According to Sherman, the initial plea agreement would have given Vaghar a 30-day jail sentence suspended for two years—meaning that she would be on probation for two years, and only serve jail time if she violated her probation—on the condition that she be evaluated for alcohol, drug, and mental health issues, pay full restitution to all of the alleged victims, and plead guilty to every offense...
...Hizballah's short-term priority, however, may be ensuring that Syrian withdrawal takes place not on the basis of Resolution 1559, which it rejects, but on the basis of the Taif Agreement brokered by the Arab League in 1989 to end the Lebanese civil war - which also mandates Syrian withdrawal, but does not require Hizballah's disarmament. Indeed, its success in fighting the 18-year Israeli occupation of Southern Lebanon, which ended in 2000, won Hizballah national acclaim across the political spectrum in Lebanon. (Today, it relies on a flimsier pretext for maintaining an army, claiming that it is fighting...
...same time, Hizballah's leader is signaling broad agreement with opposition objectives, even conceding that the time may now be ripe for a Syrian withdrawal. Most importantly, he shares absolute aversion of all the Lebanese factions towards any resumption of civil conflict. Violence against other Lebanese, he told his supporters on Tuesday, was a red line that dare not be crossed. Indeed, his performance led Lebanon's leading pro-Western liberal daily newspaper, the Daily Star, to enthuse in an editorial that "Hizballah is not a problem - it is part of Lebanon's solution." The question, however, is whether...