Word: courtrooms
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...outside the courtroom, as Iraq went from chaos to a bloody civil war, I would occasionally hear an Iraqi hark nostalgically back to the Saddam era, pointing out that for all the dictator's faults he was at least able to keep his country's sectarian demons in check. As the violence worsened, some argued that the only way to exorcize those demons would be to ditch the democratic process and hand the country back to a Saddam-style strongman. But nobody seriously suggested that Saddam himself be sprung from jail and restored to power. He had become too emasculated...
Watching the lawyer Chen Bulei argue his case, it was easy to forget that he was almost certain to lose. Pacing confidently before a packed courtroom in the northeastern Chinese city of Haicheng earlier this year, he scored rhetorical points so deftly that sympathetic onlookers pumped their fists like fans at a sporting event. Chen's client, a 56-year-old talc miner named Zhao Jitian, was on trial for "assembling a mob to disrupt social order"-a politically charged criminal offense often invoked to silence Chinese citizens who band together to air grievances against their employers or the government...
...requires his students to memorize and recite the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. "I call this forced enlightenment," he says. "If they can't memorize it, I tell them to read it out loud." One day, he hopes, such enlightenment will spread from the classroom to the courtroom...
...Conversation with Stephen Colbert” at the John F. Kennedy, Jr. Forum. Across campus, a different kind of conversation was taking place. Television and radio talk-show host Tavis Smiley spoke about the state of black America before an older, mostly African American audience in Ames Courtroom at Harvard Law School...
...with a concession. “Well, I think we’ve all learned enough here today,” he said. “Consider this your graduation ceremony. Students of the Kennedy School of Government, you are free to go!” Back in Ames Courtroom, Smiley’s message was a bit more pragmatic. “When you make black America better,” he said, “you make all of America better...