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...Inside Higher Ed. Chicago law students have expressed mixed opinions toward the ban. “There are students who use the Internet as a brief distraction during class and as a way to recharge, and there are other students who find it extremely distracting and welcome the freedom from it,” said Sara A. Feinstein, a third-year law student and president of the Law Students Association, the school’s student government. “We decided not to pursue a change in the policy, because of the very mixed student body reaction...
...territory's 1997 transition from British to Chinese rule. Under the current "one-country, two systems" policy, voters in Hong Kong may directly elect half of their 60 legislators, but Beijing retains the power to appoint the territory's chief executive. Lee has doggedly lobbied for greater electoral freedom for Hong Kong citizens. "Martin is for Hong Kong what Aung San Suu Kyi is for Burma, and what the Dalai Lama is for Tibet," says Carl Gershman, President of the National Endowment for Democracy, the Washington D.C. pro-democracy organization that awarded Lee its Democracy Award...
...hour ahead of time, with a bagpipe band of law enforcement players warming up at street level. We walked down the ramp that brought us four stories below street level to the footprint of one tower of the World Trade Center, with a giant billboard above heralding the Freedom Tower, 2012, bordered by yellow cranes and cement foundation walls. In the ceremonial square, a single large pascal candle, used at Easter and funerals to represent new life and resurrection, stood above a small reflecting pool and a symbolic plot of earth. We soon realized that there would be only...
...grown up in a society that promotes democracy and human rights, but warned that "the power to destroy does remain," embodied in social ills such as drug abuse, homelessness and poverty, racism violence degradation of girls and women, and - no surprise here, at this point in his visit - false freedom and "relativism...
...those who think that definition of freedom may be fine for a priest but constricting for an academic whose findings contradict Church teachings, Benedict had an answer: it's time to reconsider what you mean by truth. "Truth means more than knowledge," he commented. "Only in faith can truth become incarnate and reason truly human." And "the truths of faith and reason never contradict one another." There may be some Catholic educators who have trouble with that simple equation. But for now, they're probably happy that the Pope is bandying words rather than taking action...