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...Department of Defense is cracking down on universities that oppose military recruitment on campus, with an announcement last month that requires schools to give all employers the same access to student information. The policy also closes a loophole that allows schools to ban military recruiters from campus if no students express interest in the military. Harvard has experienced a sometimes-fractious relationship with the armed forces since the Vietnam War. More recently, the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, which forbids openly gay people from serving in the military...
...Catholic church seeks to modernize standards of morality, but it is an offending institution that fails to modernize its own house: it continues to ban women from the priesthood. The Vatican has cast a moral dilemma to today's faithful. When we are silent about the church's discrimination against women, are we complicit in a new sin? Judy Alves, FORT MYERS...
...rooted in political Islam. The political vehicle of this class, the Justice and Development Party (AKP), was reelected last summer with an overwhelming 47% of the vote. The old guard, having failed to beat the newcomers at the ballot box, has now asked the country's top court to ban the AKP and its leaders for undermining secularist principles they say are enshrined in Turkey's constitution...
...There are no signs of that so far. In an gesture of defiance, the AKP is considering passing a constitutional amendment that could render the case moot, making it harder to ban parties and reducing the penalty for the charges applied. But the court could argue that such a change, enacted while the case is pending, is not admissible. In that event, Erdogan - who faces a five-year ban from politics should the AKP lose - could call early elections, or even urge his supporters to take to the streets. "The man is a fighter," said one leading businessman...
There's also the problem of banning information in the age of the Internet. "Even if the court agreed on a ban of the film from the website originally broadcasting it, it would be difficult to ban it from mirror sites copying it," says Houtzager. The film is currently making the rounds on YouTube as well as other video-sharing sites. And because the original site was based in Britain, Houtzager says it's out of Dutch jurisdiction...