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...even though the Bush Administration now has in its hands a document it had preemptively denounced as a pack of lies, it is suddenly warning against hasty conclusions. "The thing to do is to not prejudge it, be patient and expect that it will take days and weeks probably to go over, and come to some judgments about it, said arch-hawk Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld. It's not as if the document had blindsided Washington - the table of contents, already leaked to the media by U.S. officials on Monday despite the priority supposedly given to maintaining the declaration...
...Bush Administration certainly believes Iraq is lying, but the reason for toning down its comments may have less to do with the contents of the document than with Washington's overall objective in going through the United Nations in the first place - winning international support for a war to oust Saddam Hussein. The U.S. insists it retains the right to strike unilaterally, and is proceeding at full steam to assemble the necessary military force in the region to mount an invasion. But it wants international backing both to ensure the widest range of basing options and, even more importantly...
Kirby then turned to the issue of free speech, arguing against censorship by quoting from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ “Guidelines on Free Speech.” The document reads in part, “We are committed to maintaining a climate in which reason and speech provide the correct response to a disagreeable idea...
Kirby also cited former University President Derek C. Bok’s 1984 influential letter “Reflections on Free Speech: an Open Letter to the Harvard Community,” a frequently cited document that addresses occasions when the University wants to distance itself from views presented by speakers on campus...
Would Frontline's cameras alter the very process it seeks to document? Jury deliberations have been televised before. Frontline did it in 1986, and a decade later CBS News installed a remote camera in the jury rooms of Maricopa County, Ariz., to document how juries reached verdicts in four criminal trials. "We talked to jurors months after their experience to ask what impact the camera had," says David Schneider, a producer at CBS when the show aired. "They said that they forgot about the camera...