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...full spectrum dominance have controlled foreign poli cy thinking inside the Bush administration from Iraq and the war on terrorism to the environment and nuclear disarmament. Precisely because many Americans cannot see the threat to their own interests posed by such an ideology—and largely because political dissent on foreign policy has been all but silenced since Sept. 11—we need Britain’s help, but not as a partner in crime. We need a critical friend with the guts to look her erstwhile son in the eye and tell him to get back...
...nonlethal-weapons programs are drawing their own fire, mostly from human-rights activists who contend that the technologies being developed will be deployed to suppress dissent and that they defy international weapons treaties. Through public websites, interviews with defense researchers and data obtained in a series of Freedom of Information Act requests filed by watchdog groups, TIME has managed to peer into the Pentagon's multimillion-dollar program and piece together this glimpse of the gentler, though not necessarily kinder, arsenal of tomorrow...
...that he wanted the al-Qaeda leader dead or alive. But with the trail growing cold, White House aides have lately offered a new definition of victory. "If he's unable to perpetrate terrorist attacks, we win," says one. That's not enough to quiet the private grumbles of dissent in both parties about the failure of the Pentagon and CIA to plink their top target. Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, a Vietnam war hero and Democratic presidential aspirant, is among those who argue that the Administration's fear of casualties and reliance on Afghan proxies allowed bin Laden...
...dissent was sharp. "The particular testing program upheld today is not reasonable, it is capricious, even perverse," Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote for the minority. How, the dissent wondered, will a line ever be drawn between students who may be tested and those who may not? That line may never be drawn, says Perry. This decision means schools can in essence test for drugs in any student they want...
...Grand Prix (second place) at the Cannes Film Festival. That propelled Jiang into the pantheon of white-hot Chinese directors. The problem was that the director sent the movie to Cannes before it had been approved by China's censors, who are acutely sensitive not only about political dissent and sex but about how the Japanese are portrayed in films shown on the mainland. Beijing got angry. As a result, Devils has never been shown in China, and worries about official displeasure have scared Jiang into staying clear of the director's chair ever since...