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...wrong place at the wrong time," calling it the wrong message to send to our adversaries and our troops. Kerry's characterization sends precisely the right message at the right time. To our adversaries, it demonstrates one of the greatest strengths of a functional democracy: the freedom to dissent and to criticize one's government without fear of having one's head severed. To our troops, it offers reassurance that Kerry fully recognizes what they are painfully aware of: the Iraq battle has gone awry and a change of strategy, tactics and leadership is called for. Thad L.D. Regulinski Tucson...
...their peril. It took equally seriously the plight of hill tribes in Bangladesh and adjustments in monetary policy in Malaysia. Under the protection of British laws in Hong Kong, it was able to deliver genuine, often hard-hitting news to readers in countries where the media had no freedom or were heavily regulated-and, until the late 1980s, that was the case in most of Asia. The Review had a discernibly expat, Hong Kong-centric perspective-Southeast Asia always seemed more important than Japan, the region's economic engine-but there was charm in that, too. "Travellers' Tales," a column...
...faces long odds in some), because those relations have been upended thanks to Berlusconi's nomination of conservative Catholic Rocco Buttiglione as Italy's member of the European Commission, the E.U.'s executive body. Commission President?designate José Manuel Dur?o Barroso had tapped Buttiglione for the Justice, Freedom and Security post, which includes responsibility for antidiscrimination and sexual equality measures as well as immigration. But Buttiglione enraged members of the European Parliament, who have the power to reject the Commission as a whole, when he referred to homosexuality as a sin and remarked that marriage was meant to provide...
...pendulous arm of justice, too, presses down on Vera Drake. By the end of the film, it is not just women as a social category who must live without freedom but Vera herself, forced to exchange liberty for captivity and the ultimate sort of crowding—that of a prison...
BGLTSA officers agree with Mark that BDSM advocacy falls in line with its philosophy of sexual freedom and tolerance. When the board members established with Mark that the BGLTSA could not start his club for him, BGLTSA co-chair Margaret Barusch ’06 says they offered him complete support in establishing SHACKLE independently...