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...authoritative way. The difficulty comes in pitching legislation right, in getting the right balance between civil liberties and the proper protection of the public," he says. The Brown government has indicated that it will not rush new antiterror legislation in response to the latest plot. That suggests a new approach. Since the beginning of the decade, Britain passed four separate laws that extended the authorities' rights to investigate and monitor suspects and seize their assets. Blair did not have everything his own way; in 2005 he suffered his first-ever defeat in the House of Commons when members...
...right to intercept calls and e-mails and to continue questioning suspects after they have been charged. The government has promised to consult on the new law widely and seek consensus on its terms. Shami Chakrabarti, the director of the human-rights group Liberty, often critical of Blair's approach, praises the new government for "resisting party politics or a knee-jerk rush to the statute books." Bob Marshall-Andrews, a Labour M.P. and bleak critic of the Blair Administration, says, "There is a completely different spirit in Parliament, and everyone can feel it. The signs are that...
...Andreessen describes Facebook as akin to AOL in the 1990s--introducing tens of millions of beginners to a new form of communication. As a co-founder of Ning, a maker of customized social networks, he's betting that many users will eventually tire of the one-size-fits-most approach. But he hastens to add that Facebook "is going to be supersuccessful...
...have been pouring taxpayers' money into distillation schemes [to convert unsold wine to industrial alcohol] while New World wine-producers have been running rings round us," E.U. Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel said last week. "Clearly, we must take a different approach to helping Europe's excellent wines punch their weight around the world more consistently...
These comments, Stern said, were not part of her speech. “The reporter was extremely annoyed by the approach of the Institute,” she said. “She wanted to be able to say something nasty about including Judaism, Christianity and Islam in the talk...