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...private institution, Harvard does not have to worry about the Supreme Court's approval. Harvard should, however, learn a lesson from the recent Supreme court decisions and create a code which makes a careful distinction between speech that is meant to harass and incite violence...
Even then, the government could still have performed if Bhutto had chosen her Cabinet well. But she has shown little ability to pick talented -- not to say honest -- ministers. Important decisions often catch Bhutto by surprise, like Interior Minister Aitzaz Ahsan's move to harass and expel Christina Lamb, a British correspondent who wrote a controversial story about army officers plotting a coup that was embarrassing to the minister. Corruption scandals hit the papers almost daily, but Bhutto insists that the reports are mainly opposition propaganda, especially the attacks on her family. But one of her closest advisers is worried...
Violent crime continues to rise in cities like New York and Washington even after severe firearm-control statutes were rushed into place. Criminals, understandably, have illegal ways of obtaining guns. Antigun laws -- the waiting periods, background checks, handgun bans, et al. -- only harass those who obey them. Why should an honest citizen be deprived of a firearm for sport or self-defense when, for a gangster, obtaining a gun is just a matter of showing up on the right street corner with enough money...
Responsible tour operators have come up with a code of conduct that forbids visitors to harass animals, enter research stations unless invited, and take souvenirs. Preservationists, like the Environmental Defense Fund's Manheim, argue in addition for strict limits on the size and frequency of tours and for civil and criminal penalties for operators who do not comply with the rules...
Smuggled out of Albania by his parents days after his birth in 1939, Leka boasted in the 1970s of training an emigre army to harass the government, which deposed his father in absentia in 1946. Today, he says, "we hope negotiation will prevail." He adds that he is prepared to renounce the throne, if the people will it. An idea worth floating, anyway...