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...Victorian Act - the first such law passed in Australia, in mid-2001 - makes it an offense to incite "hatred," "serious contempt," or "severe ridicule" of a person or group because of their religious belief. The Catch the Fire case, its first test, has drawn keen interest around the world. At a time when extremists commit mass murder in Islam's name, many Muslims in the West are complaining that their beliefs are misrepresented and their communities unfairly targeted by anti-terrorism laws. The U.N. Human Rights Commission resolved in April to combat what it called "defamation campaigns against Islam...
...source of power, and Douglass became increasingly frustrated with him. By arming only white men, the Union fought the rebels with one hand, he complained. "They fought with their soft white hand, while they kept their black iron hand chained and helpless behind them." Douglass's frustration turned to contempt in August 1862, after Lincoln met with a delegation of African Americans and urged them to emigrate to Central America. "You and we are different races," Lincoln told his black audience. "We have between us a broader difference than exists between almost any other two races ... Your race are suffering...
Reagan is now clearly the world's pre-eminent leader. He has five successful years as President under his belt. That is too long to dismiss as mere luck. The derisive labels of "amiable dunce" and "the Teflon President" lie shattered and discredited. The open contempt that the likes of Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill had for Reagan's limited grasp of the issues and his lack of understanding about his programs looks irrelevant these days. The endless reports about staff conflicts and personality clashes within the Administration, however true, turn out to be footnotes. The vaunted foreign...
Strange work. Columnists take a ribbing from their fellow journalists, reporters especially, who tend to regard columnists with the same chummy contempt that linemen show quarterbacks. Reporters do the real work, sleep in cars, get kicked by Mafia bosses on the courthouse steps. Even editors do some sweating (yelling is taxing). But columnists ride the gravy train, that's what the pressroom says. In a way, it's true. They manage to arrive home before midnight; they dine with the brass. Their physical exercise consists of pacing all the way to the far end of the study, and often back...
...distortion of history." The president's committee of the Directors Guild of America is "unalterably opposed to the cultural butchery." Woody Allen, who has shot four of his last seven films in black and white, sees colorizing as "mutilating a work of art and holding the audience in contempt. I hope people will rise up and put a stop to it." Billy Wilder puckishly sees the debate as a "black-and-white case of logic." Martin Scorsese (Raging Bull) is worried that the process will be used on less popular movies that "would be totally changed and destroyed by color...