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...RICHARD BAIRD -- San Francisco...
...There's a balance between free speech and reasonable protection of people's sensibilities," says Melbourne solicitor Murray Baird, a specialist in church law. "The Act does not achieve this. In my view it will lead to a general fear of speaking openly and plainly about religious matters." In free societies, says Australian Family Association vice-president Bill Muehlenberg, passion is the lifeblood of religious debate: "If you're serious about your faith and its truth claims, you're bound to be offended at times, or to cause offense." Elizabeth Kendal, a Melbourne-based religious liberty monitor for the World...
...those universities that not only instituted student evaluation of professors but actually utilized the data for faculty retention, tenure and promotion decisions. The American Association of University Professors should not be surprised to find groups like Accuracy in Academia putting the same data to use. John E. Baird Professor, Speech Communication California State University Hayward, Calif...
...canned, for dinner. But you can't get it fresh. Although Ayukawa was once a bustling whaling port, a two-decade-long international ban on commercial whaling has all but killed the industry here. Now just a pair of companies occasionally ply nearby waters, roving for the Baird's beaked whales they're still allowed to harvest. It's the sort of insignificant game the whalers of Ayukawa would have thrown back in the old days, when meaty minke whales were the target. The rare catches are cut and cleaned by pensioners who work part-time, as the young migrate...
...Staff writer Abigail M. Baird can be reached at ambaird@fas.harvard.edu...