Word: bans
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...open kiosk. It's a privately owned organization that sells its space. An advertisement, then, represents a business transaction--not a public statement. And any private company can refuse to engage in a business transaction, provided it isn't engaging in systematic discrimination. That's why the government cannot ban a book, but a publishing company can refuse to publish the book...
...care whether reading letters not addressed to him was legal or not, and would like to refer the students to a higher ethical and moral law, one instituted in Germany a thousand years ago by Rabbenu Gershom ben Judah Ma'or Ha'golah who called for a herem, a ban, to be imposed on those who read other peoples' letters. The Staff of the Semitic Museum (until December...
...Rights Ban Struck Down...
Though scarcely visible in the fight for the crime bill, the Brady Bill and the assault-weapons ban, Clinton got the message last week. The President threw out a blizzard of proposals: banning gun ownership by children, requiring tighter licensing and training of gun owners, an amnesty program to collect illegal weapons. Cabinet members chimed in as well. Attorney General Janet Reno talked of limiting the number of weapons an individual could own. Secretary Shalala said gun violence should be considered "a public-health crisis that requires public-health solutions," like polio in the 1950s and AIDS today. Surgeon General...
...movement is finding aggressive new allies in the medical profession. The American Academy of Pediatrics has called for a total gun ban; the American Medical Association wants to ban hollow-point bullets and raise taxes on gun sales. "Surgeons have been removing bullets since the invention of gunpowder," observes Franklin Zimring, a professor of law and director of the Earl Warren Legal Institute at the University of California, Berkeley, "but this is the first time you find a professional constituency like that involved in changing policy toward guns...