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...qualitatively different that it does require a hearing. That's the argument Ohio inmates made in 2005, and that's the argument a unanimous Supreme Court bought, with Justice Anthony Kennedy writing that supermax isolation imposes such an "atypical and significant hardship" that prisoners must have a formal opportunity to make their case against the assignment before prison officials decide...
Despite the condemnation of the Natal proposals by the local leader of the ruling National Party, South African State President P.W. Botha, the party head, has been careful not to take a formal position. The recommendations go further than he would wish, but his government is reluctant to reject them outright for fear of setting off more racial unrest. Said John Kane-Berman, conference deputy chairman: "I have no illusions about the difficulties of persuading the government to accept the plan." The Indaba's proposal for Natal may be dead for the moment, but the idea of some form...
...little explanation: the Swallowtail is a "butler café," a Tokyo restaurant staffed entirely by Japanese facsimiles of English manservants, down to the formal tails, white gloves and gracious manners. That's the first cultural oddity. Here's the second: Swallowtail is for women--specifically the burgeoning numbers drawn to manga and anime (Japanese comics and animation), a world that usually caters to slightly antisocial male obsessives. These women are known as otome (their male counterparts are called otaku), which roughly means "maidens," and their tastes run to the medieval fantasies found in their favorite manga, which explains why some...
...proposals for the future of Serbia's independence-seeking southern province of Kosovo, seen by most Serbs as the cradle of their civilization. Populated mostly by ethnic Albanians, Kosovo was placed under U.N. protectorate status in 1999 after NATO military strikes forced Serbian forces to withdraw, although it remains formally part of Serbia. For most of last year, Serbian and Kosovar envoys negotiated in vain to find a compromise on Kosovo's status at internationally mediated talks in Vienna. On Feb. 2, former Finnish President and U.N. Special envoy Martti Ahtisaari will visit Serbia's and Kosovo's capitals...
...primary interest in the talks at Hong Kong and Shanghai universities was to stimulate conversation. “I was not proselytizing for liberal education,” he said, adding that he was not adequately informed about the goals of China’s educational system to offer formal advice. “It would be presumptuous of me,” he said. Peter A. I. Gordon ’80, a former student of Lewis who invited him to Hong Kong, expressed his appreciation for the professor’s insights. “America...