Word: defending
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Idon't think it would be for the better," Leewrites in an email message. "We produce a uniqueart form, and I don't think that anyone has anyright to mandate how we produce it. I sure may notlike Robert Mapplethorpe's 'Piss Christ,' but Isure as hell will defend his right to make it;such should be the case with the Pudding...
...Tricaud argued that sending Einhorn home to America would violate his civil liberties. The French have trials in absentia, but someone so convicted in France gets a new trial once captured. Extradite Einhorn, and he could be put to death with no chance to defend himself, Tricaud wrongly told the judges. (Einhorn's sentence was life in prison, not death.) In a later interview, an adamant Tricaud described the case as an opportunity for the French to "give the United States a lesson in human rights...
Second: no one today would defend the administration of radioactive material to other human beings, sick or healthy, without their knowledge and consent. But the work in question was done 40 years ago--in another era in which the ethics of medical experimentation were perceived rather differently...
...Fear not, quaking readers. Wherever danger lurks, whenever evil rears its ugly head, the Qube's secret weapon will be there. To protect, defend, honor...until next time...
Placing the burden of stopping the "rampant epidemic of new McCarthyism," on students, Heston asked, "who will defend the core value of academia if you supposed soldiers of free thought and expression lay down your arms and plead 'don't shoot...