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...when 70% of the public thinks the country is moving in the wrong direction. The problem is, politicians hate having to talk about anything remotely adventurous in the midst of an campaign. They prefer safe recitations of conventional wisdom: We need to do something about government waste... the tax code... the health-care system. If you actually make a bold promise-health care for all, for example-you will be asked for specifics. If you give specifics, as Bill Bradley did when he proposed universal care in 1999, your opponents and the press will tear your proposal to shreds. That...
...found out, though, Vietnam's rulers are also willing to use the courts to silence critics. He was arrested on March 6 and on May 11 was sentenced to five years in prison for "spreading propaganda against the Socialist Republic," under Article 88 of Vietnam's criminal code...
...when U.S. Attorney Roslynn Mauskopf announced the bust, she deployed code-red verbiage: "Had the plot been carried out, it could have resulted in unfathomable damage, deaths and destruction." It was "chilling." The devastation could have been "unthinkable...
...Next semester, Petersen will be dealing with a new set of administrators, but his plans are no less far-reaching than they were this spring. By the end of December, he says, Petersen would like to see a reformed Administrative Board and, perhaps, the institution of an honor code. He also wants students to sit on the secretive and influential Faculty of Arts and Sciences Resources Committee...
...Milan show and images of beautiful women posing on the covers of Cosmo and Vogue in outfits stitched by their hands in isolated Siwa. The young women who are all covered in modest garments giggled at the site of the models, but were not offended by their different dress code...