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When Japanese professor Sadako Ogata arrived in Burma last week as a special envoy of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Saw Maung expressed his contempt for the very notion. "I will not give the kind of rights demanded by the Voice of America," he said in a speech. "I will not give the students the right to stage demonstrations. I won't let the people emulate the incidents in Eastern Europe...
...from airing further tapes. CNN appealed the order, then defied it, broadcasting a conversation between Noriega and a private investigator on his defense team. On Saturday the Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit rejected CNN's appeal of the restraining order. At the same time, Rubino sought a contempt ruling against the network...
...evidence for this conclusion seems a little . . . well, marginal; a lawyer might call it pure hearsay. The motive is class resentment (a couple of lads working on the estate held Jones in utter contempt), but even Perry Mason might turn into a loser trying to sell a judge that one. Even if the research were more solid, Hotchner thinks so little of the Stones and manifests such indifference to rock that his book creates an atmosphere that would put anyone, not just a fan, on the defensive. Hotchner quotes at length from Jagger and Richards, but they did not cooperate...
Despite its intensity, the antipathy toward Congress will have negligible impact on the midterm elections three weeks from now. Odd as it may seem, most voters exempt their own representatives from the contempt they hold for Congress in general. The local officeholder who does favors for constituents, attends parades and sends newsletters to the home folks often comes across as a benign exception to the general image. Of the 406 members of the House seeking re-election this November, only about 30 face serious opposition. The rest either are running unopposed or enjoy such a huge financial advantage that they...
With unbelievable contempt for these facts Arab student organizations on campus arrogantly presume to be able to "educate" the Harvard community about the politics and culture of the Middle East. Unfortunately, this "education" boils down to a simplistic and anti-Kuwaiti program: "The main idea is to get the U.S. troops out of the Gulf" according to SAS president Samia Mora. Mora would do well to remember that this conflict is grounded not only in "cultural differences," but also in a phenomenon all too common among the peoples of the world: aggression...