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...private censors are working to bend the long-traditional rules that limit the power of courts to act within their own territorial jurisdictions. Suddenly those of us who study these issues are seeing an explosion of requests to state and federal courts in the U.S. to enjoin linking and distribution throughout the Web. So may a court in Iraq or Cuba tell U.S. citizens in the U.S. what they can and cannot read? Of course not. But a U.S. court can censor citizens of Canada and Sweden, or enjoin "mirror sites" located all over the world. That...
...then I flipped to another card, with an excerpt from one often classed among the original post-modernists. Nietzsche's words leap up at me: "Without forgetting, it is quite impossible to live at all." Usually, Commencement is associated with memory--from old relatives who enjoin us to remember our good ole' college days to close friends we're urged never to forget...
WHILE THE VIRTUEmeisters of the right enjoin us to post the Ten Commandments in our kitchen and shun the unchaste among our neighbors, the Clintons have been quietly scrambling to come up with a more congenial source of moral guidance. First there was Hillary's philosophical flirtation with Tikkun editor Michael Lerner, inventor of the indefinable "politics of meaning." Then there was Bill's midnight phone seminar with Ben Wattenberg, whose most recent book makes the unstartling claim that Values Matter Most. And popping up now and again among the Clintons' candidates for official moralist of the center-left...
...fervent hope that God will grant the actual deciders on whether or not this new memorial will honor Harvard's own the strength to be bridge builders with the past and the present--not to be those who enjoin with others so as to validate the tactics of division on Harvard property...
...Midi to boot out invading Prussians, march on Paris -- whistling the tune as they went -- depose the King and fire the imagination of all Europe. That was 200 years ago. Today the song's robust words, which bristle with righteous anger at la tyrannie and enjoin the children of revolutionary France to "drench our fields" with the "tainted blood" of the enemy, are under siege by those who feel the piece smacks of political incorrectness...