Word: defendant
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...create in an climate of total freedom, whatever feelings of outrage the work may stoke among the ignorati. (That is: other people.) When we disapprove, we talk about his responsibility to the sensitivities and sensibilities of good people. (That is: us.) So, in the aesthetico-religious sphere, we defend Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ, which portrays Jesus as a human who slowly learns he's divine, and Kevin Smith's Dogma, a raw comedy about an abortion-clinic worker who is a lineal descendant of Jesus. Anyway, I defended these films in TIME, and I took...
...Nesson too is fighting the good fight. He and a handful of Law School professors are hatching a plot to take down the maze of laws protecting the entertainment establishment. In October, Nesson and Berkman Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies Jonathan L. Zittrain traveled to Washington, D.C., to defend their cause before the Supreme Court. And today, the professors say they’ve just begun the immense project of erasing the laws that killed Napster. Their goal: to rewrite copyright law, transforming it into a form compatible with both artistic compensation and the free flow of information...
...Homosexualist activists have made this an issue and have forced the hand of people who want to defend marriage,” he said...
...presidential term to undermine it. The Russian military announced last week that it successfully tested a hypersonic missile capable of actively evading present—and future—missile defense systems. And, although the network of radar stations and interceptor missiles Bush envisions was never supposed to defend against a Russian attack, this development nonetheless underscores how wasteful and counterproductive America’s nascent missile defense system...
...always been a case study in futility. The technology required to fire decoys—multiple warheads on one rocket that can hopelessly confuse interceptor missiles—is all too easy for a rogue state or terrorist group to employ but difficult for the United States to defend against, even after spending the $100 billion that the Congressional Budget Office predicts the shield will cost. (Of course, estimates such as these also usually fall woefully short of the final cost.) And now, with Russia’s new missile technology—which a rogue state could acquire through...