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...most kids seem to take the code as merely an inside joke, some schools like Fort McCoy in Marion County, Fla., have banned the bracelets. "It's a hot-button topic here," says school-board member Sue Mosley, who has heard complaints from parents at middle schools. Some kids defend the bracelets as just kitschy accessories. "I've been wearing my bracelet since eighth grade," says 15-year-old Roby Behrens of Los Angeles. "It's a fashion thing. You don't need them to have sex, but people do use them to kiss or get to third base...
Though her friends consider her still in danger from vigilante death squads, Ebadi continues to defend those facing imprisonment for their pro-democracy activities. But Iran's reform movement has been brutally suppressed in recent years, and it seems doubtful that the regime will soon change its ways. If it fails to do so, it will hear more from Ebadi, whose reputation in the outside world has been enhanced by last week's storied award. --With reporting by Bruce Crumley/Paris
Despite the arbitrariness of our loyalties to Harvard and House, these loyalties quickly become deeply held and fiercely defended. Harvard is littered with buildings bearing the names of loyal alumni; the Coop devotes its entire first floor to sweatshirts, visors and Nalgene bottles to vend to the Harvard faithful. In cities worldwide, Harvard clubs have healthy membership lists. And our loyalties to our Houses run as deep. With the willful blindness of zealotry, Quadlings defend their Garden Street gulag; House Committees do brisk trade in crest-emblazoned beer steins and shot glasses; in the spring, upperclassmen, one of whom will...
...Crimson Staff itself wrote on September 25, 2002 that Israel has an inalienable right to defend itself—in that case, from a potential Iraqi strike. Israel retains its inalienable right to defend itself from any nation that, officially or unofficially, targets and attacks Israeli civilians...
From Day One as a Democratic presidential candidate, Wesley K. Clark, the retired general, has had to defend his past praise of the president's national security advisers-some of those compliments coming in a speech Clark gave at a GOP fundraising dinner in Little Rock in May, 2001. At that event, he singled out top officials from Vice President Cheney to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, calling them a "great team" and saying that "we need them there...