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...fact that it is not easy to kill anyone, even your enemies, up close and personal, that such acts inevitably involve the infliction of collateral damage, not to mention the equally inevitable loss of one's own colleagues. The director has called his film "a prayer for peace," an implicit plea for a negotiated settlement to the Israel-Palestine war. He doesn't think any movie can accomplish that, but Munich is a thoughtful, intricate, handsomely made, potentially popular step in the right-the only possible-direction. (Click for TIME's Cover...
...spring semester, Yale College Dean’s office announced last Thursday. According to Yale College Assistant Dean William T. Whobrey, the decision was made in accordance with an agreement created this fall between Yale and the 10 visiting students. “There was always an implicit understanding that when Tulane was ready to take its students back, the offer of admission at Yale and other universities was temporary,” Whobrey said. “Our policy was based on respect for the wishes of the university—the home institutions for the visiting students...
...from Iraq, where more than 2,100 Americans have died, followed a sharply worded statement from Iraqi leaders at an Arab League meeting in Cairo last week. The gathering of Sunnis, Shi'ites and Kurds not only demanded a timetable for the withdrawal of foreign troops but also gave implicit support to the insurgency by calling resistance "a legitimate right," so long as it doesn't involve "terrorism and acts of violence" against civilians, institutions and houses of worship...
...Though Hagel, a Vietnam veteran, has criticized the war for a long time, the fact that he is willing to so publicly defy the Bush administration highlights the growing power of Iraq critics within Congress. In essence, these critics are finally calling the Bush administration on its implicit contention that Congress’ Oct. 2002 vote to authorize the use of force in Iraq also hindered Congress’ right to evaluate the administration’s handling of the war itself. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have used the pro-authorization votes of individual senators and House representatives...
...claim such a right. “The Ames Curfew is an undue burden on the right of free movement and therefore violates the Equal Protection clause,” said Bryce Callahan, who made oral arguments for the petitioners. “The right of free movement is implicit in the concept of liberty.” Adam Harber, the leading oralist of the respondents, disagreed that free movement constituted a constitutional right. “The petitioners have asked for a new substantive due process right, the right to free movement,” Harber said. The judges...