Word: forbiddenness
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...more than just tobacco-industry executives and die-hard smokers are raising questions about the current antismoking frenzy. Has the crusade turned into a witch-hunt? Will the campaign to ban smoking simply make the forbidden weed another rebellious turn-on for kids? What sort of policy sense does it make to try to legislate smoking out of existence at the same time that the government is becoming increasingly dependent on tobacco as a source of tax revenue? And for all the new efforts to enact tough restrictions on smoking, how widely does the American public support them...
Barry, who served six months in prison for drug possession after leaving office as mayor, might seem a curious proponent of piety, but his campaign is no oddity. Pressed by voters, legislators around the U.S. are probing for loopholes in Supreme Court rulings that have forbidden mandated school prayers along with "moments of silence" to foster praying and clergy prayers at school graduations. These efforts come, moreover, at a time when the court is re-examining a cornerstone of its rulings on church and state: the so-called Lemon test, which has forbidden virtually all government involvement with religion...
Smokers start smoking for the same reason drinkers start drinking and for the same reason Adam and Eve took the proverbial apple from the Tree of Knowledge: the forbidden fruit is always the sweetest...
...second property of forbidden speech at the Law School is that it is "commonly understood" to convey a hatred for human beings on the basis of their race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, age or national origin. But what is "commonly understood?" Will a list be drawn up of all the words, name-calling and epithets that this category includes, so that the speech that is deemed to posses this second property will be consistently determined and clear to all students (including foreign students who may not know what is "commonly understood" to be hateful...
...Bank forces said Jewish settler Baruch Goldstein's killing spree in the Tomb of the Patriarchs could have been prevented. Five of the six men who were supposed to be on guard inside the mosque -- including three who overslept -- were missing.A police superintendent testified that Israeli security forces were forbidden to fire on Jewish settlers, even if the settlers were shooting Palestinians. In that case, he said, "you take cover and wait for the clip to finish, then stop him in some other way, not by shooting...