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...skepticism is well founded. Five years ago, the government passed a similar helmet law but backed down in the face of popular opposition. In fact, for an authoritarian regime, Vietnam's government has an awful lot of trouble enforcing its most basic traffic laws - motorcyclists regularly ignore red lights and pull into traffic without so much as a glance around. Not only do teenagers talk on mobile phones while driving, they can increasingly be seen sending text messages, eyes darting back and forth between the road ahead and their fast-tapping fingers...
...both the social and entertainment establishments. Long after the movement petered out or became commercialized elsewhere, it took hold for the first time in Jakarta in the mid-1990s - at a time when the music's belligerence seemed to perfectly echo the hostility many young people felt toward the authoritarian regime of then President Suharto. Onie recalls listening to Guns N' Roses and boy band New Kids on the Block and never feeling a real connection with the music. "Then an Indonesian friend told me that I had to listen to Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols...
...look at the philosophy of tailgating in New Haven and realize that a more pragmatic approach can be more effective for all parties involved. This year’s tailgate was a shining example of how large scale events can be fun and safe for undergraduates without resorting to authoritarian regulations. We hope, when the game returns to Cambridge next fall, we will be able to say the same of our own tailgate...
...that Solove again focuses his discussion of the murky problem of law on the Internet through the lens of specific cases. The author stresses the importance of finding a middle ground between the libertarian approach, which calls for little to no government tampering with the Internet, and the authoritarian approach, which calls for strict control. He then highlights individual laws by discussing real life situations in which they were applied. Although some of Solove’s comparisons to events long in the past seem a little contrived, the second half of his book is almost as successful...
...Many Guatemalans, especially in the capital, where the impact of the civil war was lower than in the countryside, remember their streets being safer during the decades of authoritarian rule by military strongmen such as Gen. Efrain Rios Montt. Montt was recently elected to Congress despite facing an international arrest warrant issued by a Spanish court investigating allegations of crimes against humanity in Guatemala during his 1982-3 rule...