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...according to Craig Allin, professor of political science at Iowa's Cornell College and an expert in public land management, this particular action could remain unscathed at the federal level. "The situation that will confront the new Congress and new President, should they choose to fight this order, is difficult. The deed is done, and undoing it would require extensive and complicated processes involving scientific studies and garnering public opinion," says Allin. "You'd have to be pretty committed to that. I'm sure this protection action is something Bush wouldn't have undertaken on his own, but I wouldn...
...very basic level, the concept of taking over a building is in conflict with a culture of dialogue. The proper use of demonstrations and rallies is to promote discourse that might otherwise have been flagging, to compel students and administrators to confront the issue and consider where they stand. Occupying a building is of a different breed, and just because a protest is non-violent doesn't mean it's non-coercive. To the extent that it interferes with the university, that it harasses and annoys instead of persuades, the protest represents coercion rather than dialogue. "We get our policy...
...said they were just borrowing tactics that Jesse Jackson and the Democrats perfected years ago and had imported to Florida immediately after the vote, but Jesse's operation was never like this. Organizers with headsets and microphones moved the protesters about, here for a CNN live shot, there to confront a Democratic Congressman, louder here, softer over there, conducting the crowd like a roving symphony orchestra. "The election may have ended, but the campaign hasn't," said New York lawyer Brad Blakeman, a top Bush campaign advanceman now moonlighting as a freedom fighter. "It would be disingenuous to say this...
This would indeed be a constitutional crisis, but one brought on by the courts themselves, and one we have long needed to confront...
Barak--a former general himself and commander of Israel's special forces--has been willing to confront Sharon head on. For two weeks last month, Sharon and Barak haggled over the idea of an emergency coalition between left and right--something Israelis call a national-unity government. Barak wanted Sharon included to bolster his minority government. But Sharon set out to exact a high price, demanding a veto over peace-process issues. Barak's team wavered. Two weeks ago, Sharon's chief negotiator, Likud legislator Meir Sheetrit, demanded a decision. "Let's cut the bulls___," he remembers saying. "I want...