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...fact, this new legislative proposal represents a significant departure from the previous law and a disturbing radicalization of French political tactics. The responses of jurists to the government’s proposed legislation make it very clear: The “burka ban?? does not uphold the principles of French republican law—it overtly violates them...
...biggest victory came in California, where 63 percent of voters passed into law Proposition Two, which effectively bans the caged confinement of veal calves, gestating pigs, and egg-laying hens. California’s hens will be the most immediate beneficiaries of the ban??20 million of them will be released from their crammed battery cages by 2015, when the law comes into effect. But long term, the effects could go national: After Arizona’s voters passed a similar ban in 2006, Smithfield Foods—one of the nation’s largest pork producers?...
...customers are likely to smoke in their homes or elsewhere if they cannot go to cigar bars. Thus, the measure is doing nothing to protect the health of the bars’ customers. Furthermore, smoking in these bars—unlike smoking in the restaurants covered by the previous ban??does not pose a risk to nonsmokers. Customers at a cigar bar go there solely in order to smoke, or at least to spend time in the company of smokers. Eliminating the presence of cigar bars does nothing but redirect the deliberate inhalation of smoke that takes place...
What proponents of the ban seem to ignore is that the conditions that “force” female students to wear headscarves do not disappear under the ban. According to Human Rights Watch—an international advocacy organization which has condemned the ban??the policy “has denied thousands of women access to education” by requiring them to abandon part of their religious beliefs to attend universities. To force women to choose between their faith and their future is cruel...
Former Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby and three other Harvard professors led a dinner on etiquette last night, teaching students how to interact in a business setting in China and imparting wisdom on the lack of a “double-dipping ban?? abroad. Kirby opened the event with a series of remarks on Chinese etiquette, but admitted to the audience that giving a speech before dinner was, in fact, not consistent with Chinese tradition. “This is actually not the kind of thing that would happen at a Chinese banquet, but we have...