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...attack on well-known intellectual Azad, a moderate Muslim who is an outspoken critic of Islamic fundamentalism, has also led many in Bangladesh's intelligentsia to believe that they too are now being systematically targeted by Islamic radicals because they advocate secularism and tolerance. "How can you have intellectual freedom when you don't know whether you will come home safely in the evening?" asks Abul Barkat, an economist at Dhaka University...
...China's claims to sovereignty over Taiwan are almost entirely without merit by any reasonable historical, political or moral standard. Nor is there anything surprising about the people of Taiwan's desire to run their own affairs. Only their freedom to speak their minds is new. Eric Wedemeyer Tokyo...
...graduate-level law schools around Japan will open their doors to more than 5,000 would-be attorneys. "I don't want to be a salaryman," says Yuki Imai, 22, a freshman at the University of Tokyo's new law school. "A law degree will give me more freedom...
...make a big to-do about its alliance with the religious right. For two years the King of All Media galvanized a considerable audience of political dummies in the president’s support. But their differences on fundamental peacetime social issues like abortion, gay marriage and, most powerfully, freedom of expression now threaten to loosen the hold Bush has likely had on Stern’s audience, made up of the same ordinary people whom the administration has always sought to attract...
...supporting Kerry, and I'd like to indict Bush. There are many things to recommend Kerry. He has always supported reproductive freedom as a fundamental human right, as well as social programs that women need disproportionately. As a man who knows what war is like, he has tended to be more restrained in his willingness to wage...