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...books and English lessons, but when the aid agencies weren't looking, the Sudan People's Liberation Army (spla) gave them AK-47s and uniforms and sent them into battle, first in Ethiopia and then in southern Sudan. Jal, a 9-year-old officer with the passion of a freedom fighter, rarely saw the face of his enemies, who mostly attacked the child fighters with gunships and shells. "Young people are so brave when they go to fight," he says. "Before, you are afraid, but when you shoot you get that strength. What they don't know...
...FAIR suit and the Waxman brief argue that the Solomon Amendment violates schools’ academic freedom rights by effectively silencing universities that want to “send a message” that is critical of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy...
...court were to hold that the Solomon Amendment is unconstitutional because schools have absolute freedom to determine education policies, then you can imagine a subsequent case citing that precedent to reduce the scope of—or even invalidate—Title IX’s funding contingency...
That is correct, Israel. Israel is not a country that prohibits freedom of religionthough there are many that donor even a country that restricts public participation in governanceof which there are more still. No, the only country in the world that is worthy of divestment is a functioning democracy that affords rights to all of its citizens, regardless of race or religioneven while besieged from within and without...
...feel is emerging. The West won, and so a firm grounding in its culture and values is necessary. This argument, however, can be strung too far. Its one thing for someone to say that the Western tradition is responsible for the primacy today of principles like democracy, liberty, and freedom. Its another to make a normative judgment and say that these principles are somehow better than other cultures values...