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Freemen and militias are only extreme examples of an antifederalist insurgency spreading in Western states-one that takes up legal briefs as well as arms and is quite willing to flout the law. Emboldened by the Republican takeover of Congress, a growing number of ordinary citizens, as well as local and state government officials, are rejecting federal authority and fighting for what they believe are their property rights. Last week the Justice Department filed a lawsuit seeking to stop Nye County in Nevada from taking over federal lands and intimidating federal officials. Associate Attorney General John Schmidt said the Justice...
...modest, and above all, honest. Indeed, among administrators, Green is a rare breed--he says what he thinks. In just 21 months as Provost, the once and future economics professor has developed a reputation as the Rudenstine administration's most outspoken members, the one who isn't afraid to flout the party line...
...intriguing world of espionage is fraught with a similar moral problematic. A successful spy is necessarily unscrupulous: he must lie and cheat, seduce and steal--in short, flout every moral convention known to man--if he is to be of service to his country. Yet, at the same time, society reserves some of its sharpest moral condemnation for the spy who turns against his country. The lexicon of spying is at once pathologically amoral and sanctimoniously ethical...
...treats can long stand without effective enforcement. To that end, the Harvard community must be prepared to take actions against violators commensurate with the sanctions the international community levies against nations which flout nuclear and chemical weapons proliferation treaties. We must blockade all shipments of ink and paper to renegade publications. We must boycott shows put on in violation of the treaty. Pagemaker will be contraband technology for those who do not sign, and Kinko's will be off limits...
...tangible function of the royal family is to act as a sort of projection for people's emotions or aspirations. Diana's contemporaries, especially women, see her as a kind of feminist heroine, a fighter who knows her own worth, what she wants out of life and how to flout traditional protocol to get it. Even Camille Paglia, the American feminist movement's holy terror, got the message and has jumped on the bandwagon. Writing in the New Republic, she argued that "Diana may have become the most powerful image in world popular culture today...