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This isn’t controversial stuff. Democracy, human rights and civil liberties are good. North Korea selling missiles is evil. Iran arming Palestinian terrorists: evil. Saddam Hussein gassing Kurds, making anthrax and training commando teams to hijack planes (as he did in the Salman Pak neighborhood of Baghdad): very...
“Even the defendant’s magnificent scientific achievements pale in comparison to the destruction of a young life,” Fasano said in his decision.
Japan's fatal misstep was to avoid the short-term pain of closing down dud companies and faltering banks after the bubble burst, the so-called "creative destruction" the U.S. allowed in the 1990-91 recession and after the savings and loan collapse of 1988. Tokyo said it wanted to...
But there's another danger too: that Japan's complacent public will go along with some muddle-through plan, and no creative destruction will take place. "I've heard of one woman closing her account and then renting a safe at the same bank and stuffing her cash in there...
In most freedom-of-expression cases, the alleged offense was more flagrant than the Chomsky text that propelled Tas into court. In that March 2001 lecture, entitled "Prospects for Peace in the Middle East" and delivered in Toledo, Ohio, the U.S. academic referred to Turkey's crackdown on its Kurdish...