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Human rights groups say the length of Liu's sentence is the longest they've seen for a subversion charge, a harsh punishment meant to warn other activists. "The explicit message being sent is: we are brooking no challenge, no further dissent of this nature and if you continue, this is the consequence. It's the old 'kill the chicken to scare the monkeys' routine," says Joshua Rosenzweig, a Hong Kong-based official with the Dui Hua Foundation, a human-rights group. "The implicit message or unintended message is the government is very, very afraid of allowing any sort...
...officially rejects violence and explicit Nazi references. Nonetheless, the federal government attempted to ban the party in 2003, only to be overruled by the German high court - an embarrassment for then Premier Gerhard Schr...
...Despite Russian and Chinese support for censuring Iran at the IAEA, they're not expected to back explicit, broad sanctions targeting elements of the Iranian economic or defense establishments beyond those directly involved in the nuclear program. The Administration's effort at the U.N. is focused on getting language included in a resolution that will give cover to countries willing to take sanctions further by targeting the Iranian power structure to raise the cost of its continued defiance...
...that spotlight a libertarian, Western view of the law. He was part of a panel of judges that ruled that the Bush Administration crackdown on California's medical-marijuana laws was unconstitutional, though that was later reversed on appeal. More recently, he has had to apologize for posting sexually explicit images on a private website that was inadvertently made available to the public. He was given a warning by judicial ethics authorities, who found he had not violated any ethics rules. While his orders in the Golinski dispute make clear that the unequal treatment of gays raises significant constitutional questions...
...flaunting specialist furniture such as a ?2,500 ($4,130) Stretching Bed from Dungeon Equipment or a ?115 ($190) Funswing, which looks like a cross between a hammock and a baby bouncer and could be mistaken for a comfortable perch for watching TV if the brochure didn't deploy explicit photos to illustrate its (im)proper use. "You can sell anything. You just need to find a niche," says Anna Grant, the proprietress of Funswings. (See a TIME video on celebrity sex tapes...