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...Syamsuddin deny any intention of imposing Shari'a or that non-Muslims are being targeted. They also reject the claim that rights will be curtailed, saying that the objective of the law is to protect women and children. "The removal of pornography is not an infringement on press freedom," asserts Santi Soekanto from the Anti-Pornography Alliance, a civic group. "Most countries have some form of laws regulating the industry." Opponents say there is sufficient legislation already on the books?it just needs to be enforced?and that the new laws leave the definition of pornography unclear and open...
...have trumped eBay in terms of high-level access: it appears to have met with the patent office's general counsel, James Toupin, and another senior official, John Whealan. According to a document obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request and provided to TIME, RIM chairman and co-CEO Jim Balsillie was scheduled to meet with patent-office officials on Jan. 4, 2005, along with representatives from the U.S. Department of Commerce (such meetings are highly unusual). In February a Canadian government official contacted a patent-office lawyer to find out if the Canadian Patent Office should "exert...
...statement to The Crimson, Dershowitz said that Mearsheimer and Walt “make outrageous and unsupportable claims; they invoke academic freedom in the marketplace of ideas, but then they refuse to participate in the marketplace of ideas by declining reasonable debate about their position...
...Rice did her best to shrug off the catcalls, stressing her belief in the necessity of the Iraq war and even trying to spin the demonstrations as support for the Bush Administration's "freedom agenda." ?People have the right to protest,? she said at one point. "That's what democracy is all about. And I'm just delighted that in more and more of the world, those rights to speak your mind are being extended to other people for whom that right has not been there...
...Indeed, on the same day that Carroll was enjoying her newly won freedom, CNN reported that 40 more Iraqis were kidnapped. And judging by recent grim events, their prospects for a happy ending like Carroll's aren't very good...