Word: civilization
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...with Lee, which was posted online. It's still worth reading as an example of two first-class minds going at it hammer and tongs. He was critical, too, of some of the laws and policies that were adopted in the wake of 9/11, believing they too easily sacrificed civil liberty at the altar of national security and its supposed imperatives. (See TIME's photos-essay "A Farewell to George W. Bush...
...Burns has a knack for making documentaries about some of the most contentious episodes in American history without saying anything that will tick anyone off. Over two decades, his PBS films have taken on the Civil War, feminism, World War II and, above all, race. They've been criticized for omissions: Hispanics in The War, modern artists in Jazz. But on the whole, they're substantive without being polarizing, passionately arguing positions almost everyone agrees with: Racism is bad, democracy is good, war is hell...
...height of the civil war in Iraq, a tidal wave of refugees crossed the border into Syria, changing the face of the capital, Damascus, with their clothing, accents and shell-shocked appearances. Years later, many of the 1.5 million Iraqis remaining in Syria have become a part of the fabric of life. Many own homes or businesses and have children who speak Arabic with a Syrian accent. But one sector of the immigrant population still feels ill at ease: the 400,000 or so Iraqis with ties to the former regime of Saddam Hussein...
...people connected to terrorism or espionage. It would make numerous other changes, such as limiting use of National Security Letters - a power the FBI has misused in the past, according to the Inspector General of the Justice Department - to force document disclosure and lifting telecommunication companies' immunity from civil claims arising from the Bush Administration's warrantless wiretaps. (Read about the Bush Administration and the Patriot...
...strict limits on National Security Letters as Feingold?s. Assistant Attorney General David Kris, chief of the Department of Justice's National Security Division, said the Administration had not fully reviewed or taken a stance on either bill. Justice officials say they're willing to discuss added protections for civil liberties and privacy, but only so long as they don't dilute the government's authority to exercise its powers...