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...Rudd is a brazen striver. In the past, Australians deducted points from a candidate for grandiosity. In Rudd's case, there's a schoolboyish transparency about his cheerful ambition to be best in show. Times have also changed. Putting yourself out there is what people do in a networked society, and this has helped Rudd. In his first speech to Parliament on Remembrance Day 1998, the member for Griffith began: "Politics is about power." For those listening in the House that day, Rudd spoke about political philosophy, the role of the state, the great policy challenges facing the nation...
...this shocking episode in the trailer last fall - you have to wonder, when will it end?" says Danielle Brian, the executive director of the Project on Government Oversight, an independent, non-partisan government watchdog group. "How can we continue to believe Department of Energy promises to end this brazen laxity in the handling of national security information...
...brazen step certain to aggravate the nuclear crisis between Iran and the West, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced Monday his country was now capable of industrial scale uranium enrichment. The declaration carried the hallmarks of the president's theatrical, defiant speeches, styled to show off Iran's tough posture and encourage a sense of nationalist pride among ordinary Iranians. "With great pride, I declare that as of today our country has joined the nuclear club of nations," Ahmadinejad said, speaking before a great billboard of the Iranian flag encircled by the symbol for nuclear energy. The next day Iranian newspapers...
...human sexuality.” Such content-based regulation not only denies students a necessary forum for discussion and education about sexuality, but, more appallingly, it thinly disguises the legislature’s discriminatory interest in banning gay-straight alliances. Our primary objection to this legislation stems from its brazen attempt to regulate the content of student discourse; such regulation, in nearly all forms, stifles the freedom of inquiry so fundamental to education. Like classrooms, student groups and clubs provide an essential venue through which students can explore new subjects, develop existing interests, and engage with their fellow students. Such...
Just as President Bush plans to visit Central America, the demons of corruption, drug dealing and murder there that have long been kept under wraps, either by official complicity or negligence, are beginning to attract public scrutiny. Eight brazen and grisly murders -three Salvadoran congressmen and their driver, and four Guatemalan policemen -have shaken the two countries' governments and shed light on the criminal underworld operating with impunity from inside police forces...