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...Sharon hasn't had to vilify Barak nearly as much as Barak has had to paint Sharon as an extremist. Sharon is simply campaigning on the idea that Barak would be great in any job except prime minister. A unity government could actually survive for some time, because it would suit both leaders to avoid a new election. After all, if there was a new election for both parliament and the prime minister's job, Sharon would be challenged by Netanyahu for the leadership of his party. And Barak, too, would probably face an internal challenge...
During his tenure at the law school, Bollinger, a well-known First Amendment scholar, published several of his own volumes, including Images of a Free Press and The Tolerant Society: Freedom of Speech and Extremist Speech in America...
...Ashcroft was considering a run for the presidency, he composed a hand-written thank-you note to a man many politicians would run from. Neatly inscribed on Ashcroft's Senate stationery, the letter went to Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America, a firearms lobbying group considered extremist even by many conservatives...
...puzzling, because the nomination of an extremist like Ashcroft is so needlessly out of synch with the rest of Bush's utterly respectable Cabinet choices. He could have satisfied the right by selecting Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating, who is as tough on crime as Ashcroft, yet far less controversial. But as we are about to find out, Ashcroft won't be confirmed without a fight. The angriest coalition of liberal, civil rights and feminist organizations Washington has seen since the 1987 battle over Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork is lining up to oppose him. The opposition's leaders concede that...
...ability to overcome most diseases, clean up the environment and alleviate illiteracy and poverty. However, deeply intertwined with these gains will be profound new risks. New concerns will include such questions as "Who is controlling the nanobots?" and "Whom are the nanobots talking to?" For example, organizations (e.g., governments, extremist groups) could distribute trillions of undetectable nanobots that could then monitor, influence or even control our thoughts and actions. Nanobot self-replication run amuck could have the potential to create a nonbiological cancer. And as for intelligent robots, how can we be sure they will remain our faithful servants...