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That seems a premature judgment about Putin, who is still very much a secret self. "He's a blank sheet of paper," says Duma Deputy Yuri Shchekochikhin. Deliberately maintaining the mystery gives him maximum maneuvering room. Putin knows he wants to be powerful; he wants Russia to be strong, and he wants to preside over its comeback. But he does not know how to do that. Maybe he is too small a man for the job. Maybe even his galvanic will cannot deliver in the face of Russia's enormous failures: his paper powers are vast, but the necessary institutions...
...hand, the Court finds the prayer to be wholly and voluntarily initiated by students, the Justices may decide the practice is protected by the First Amendment right to free speech. First Amendment watchers are going to be looking at this case intently - when the Supreme Court delivered its 1992 judgment against prayers during school graduations, it ruled by just one vote. This case is likely to be similarly close...
...with all rulings that appear to erode First Amendment rights, the judgment left many civil libertarians with a sour taste in their mouths. Some take issue with the notion that the addition of a G-string and pasties on a dancer would reduce the crime and other problems associated with erotic entertainment. Others warn that once you begin to limit speech, the slope becomes very slippery. "In past cases the Court allowed municipalities to use zoning to limit nude bars," says Sanders. "Now they're saying you can actually regulate the content of speech, and that's dangerous ground." Still...
...course, both the government and Microsoft are free to appeal the judge's decision. The software company has particular incentive to do just that, says Grimes, considering its track record: In a recent decision, a U.S. Court of Appeals' ruling was far more favorable toward Microsoft than the original judgment had been...
...turning a blind eye or quietly resisting - depending on whom you believe. But for Pope John Paul II, then Karol Wojtyla of Wadowice, Poland, the Holocaust was a lived experience, as he made clear during an emotional address at Israel's Yad Vashem memorial on Thursday. And whatever his judgment on the acts and omissions of the Vatican at the time, there was no moral ambiguity about the response of the young Catholic seminarian who watched as the Jewish friends and neighbors with whom he'd grown up - and, indeed, some 20 percent of his country's Catholic clergy - were...