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...Japanese Supreme Court ruling allows a court to suspend a publication when its content is false, or when it causes "irreparable damage" to its subject with no benefit to the public interest. Few critics of the district court's decision defend the Tanaka story as being in the public interest, but many find the drastic action over such an innocuous revelation a blow to free speech. While an editorial in the Asahi Shimbun newspaper condemned the magazine story as intrusive and sensationalistic, it simultaneously called the injunction "a radical and dangerous departure" from the "rigorous restrictions on courts banning publications...
...succession, he was forced to back down from a controversial plan to close entertainment venues at midnight, respond to accusations that he was using his influence to muffle criticism in the local press, watch as thousands rallied in Bangkok to protest government plans to privatize state-owned industries, and defend his heavy-handed war on drugs after the U.S. State Department cited it as proof that Thailand's human-rights record had "worsened...
...TIME.com: What would explain the ferocity with which Pakistani tribesmen appear ready to die to defend Arab terrorists...
...ancestral land is a big no-no. What we're seeing is that because of harsh government action, a lot of tribesmen who couldn't care less about giving sanctuary to Zawahiri or anyone else are feeling that their honor is now at stake, and that they have to defend...
There are ways to defend yourself in public without giving prosecutors ammunition--and reasons for doing so. After all, the jury pool is out there listening. But Stewart's longtime handlers at the Susan Magrino Agency seemed overwhelmed. For months the agency failed to put out any kind of message. Says Susan Magrino: "It wasn't a p.r. strategy. The lawyers were calling the shots at the time...