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...this week's cover story, TIME editors assembled a panel of four thinkers-Mark Cuban, an Internet entrepreneur who also owns a basketball team, Andres Martinez, the editor of the Los Angeles Times opinion pages; Steven Johnson, an expert in technology and popular culture; and Caitlin Flanagan, a mother who writes about the American family-to talk about the trends that will shape our future...
...MARC FABER Emerging-markets expert and publisher of the monthly investment newsletter The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report Thaksin has the support of the rural population, but the urban population in Bangkok is strongly opposed to him, especially the intellectuals. They argue that he is buying votes in the countryside, which is to some extent true. Voters in the countryside are shipped to rallies in buses and given free food. But this isn't something unique to Thailand or Thaksin by any means. It is the dark side of democracy. Many other politicians all over the world do the same thing...
...produced by the Office of Legal Counsel and signed by Bybee. The memo said that the torture of al Qaeda terrorists held abroad “may be justified” and that international covenants may be an unconstitutional violation of the president’s authority. Many legal experts have attacked the memo, and the Bush administration even took the drastic step of formally disavowing it in June 2004. Yale Law School Dean Harold H. Koh ’75, an expert on international law, called the memo “perhaps the most clearly erroneous legal opinion...
...Blendon, the public opinion expert, said that the use of the phrase “in general” in the polling question meant that results did reflect students’ impressions of the Summers-FAS dispute...
Harvard civil rights expert Randall Kennedy urged a predominantly African American audience last night to be “radically individualistic,” while his colleague, legal scholar Lani Guinier, cautioned students against “selling out your soul” to self-interest. The two Law School faculty members, both black, joined a historian, a business professor, and an economist at a roundtable sponsored by the Black Law Students Association (BLSA) at which the scholars debated the notion of “acting white.” Kennedy, who is the Klein professor of law, said...