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...ourselves. By voting to strip President Roh of power and leaving it to the country's Constitutional Court to determine his ultimate political fate, South Korea's National Assembly has demonstrated the frightful weakness of the country's purported democracy?and has dealt that already frail structure another grave blow from which it is not yet clear it can recover...
...content is false, or when it causes "irreparable damage" to its subject with no benefit to the public interest. Few critics of the district court's decision defend the Tanaka story as being in the public interest, but many find the drastic action over such an innocuous revelation a blow to free speech. While an editorial in the Asahi Shimbun newspaper condemned the magazine story as intrusive and sensationalistic, it simultaneously called the injunction "a radical and dangerous departure" from the "rigorous restrictions on courts banning publications...
...that drought, as the pair broke in 2-on-1 off the opening faceoff at the start of the second, with the latter tacking on the Crimson’s first tally. Making matters more difficult for the power-play line was the unwillingness of the officials to blow their whistles in the high-profile game, allowing scrappy play to arguably go beyond the limits of legal contact. When infractions were called against Harvard, however, its penalty kill was as rigid as ever, extending its record over four games...
...Calla, a negative repercussion of the NYC music boom is the over-saturation of bands fighting for attention. “A lot of bands were expected to blow up,” says Valle. “They all put out records, so now there’s a lot of pressure. At the same time, there are a number of bands that are really good, and they’re not getting as much attention as they should...
...comes across as inexplicable (or truly selfish) that I hate turning down the volume so that everything’s contained and nice. “What’s the point,” one thinks, “of owning a subwoofer just to blow more air?” Maybe while driving your car out in the street you can justify the extra liberty, but not indoors, where the smaller environment renders the whole device excessive. Admittedly, owning equipment that’s made to boost a hedonistic (as opposed to transcendental...