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...always a pleasant surprise to hear that kind of mainstream liberal rhetoric coming from a staunch conservative like Bush. But the taste of free opportunity soured somewhat as the president’s next words—outlining a vague but far-reaching plan for reforming federal immigration law??completely undermined the ideals to which he had paid half-hearted lip service...
...France makes the ban law??as it is expected to do as early as February—it will have sacrificed a long democratic tradition for a quick fix to the much larger issue of immigrant integration. It will have traded citizens’ right to freedom of expression for political expediency. France’s secularism was founded upon liberté, égalité and fraternité. Restricting liberté cannot turn France into a more unified country. A bandanna should not be the undoing of a democracy...
...case against Greenpeace is hardly clear-cut either. The attorney general is prosecuting the organization under an obscure 1872 law??last enforced in 1890—that was intended for “sailor-mongers,” who lured ships’ crews ashore to shady bars and brothels. But you can hardly blame him. How many good sailors must environmental activists lead astray before the attorney general takes a stand...
According to the student handbook, the GSE’s policy on harassment states that “rape, assault, unwelcome touching, physical intimidation...and forms of behavior that violate federal or state civil rights law?? are “impermissible...
...federal law??the Solomon Amendment—applies only if a university “prohibits, or in effect prevents” military recruiters’ entry to campus or “access” to its students. The crucial legal word choice is “prohibits, or in effect prevents,” because, as Judge Lifland’s decision explains, “Congress chose not to use language connoting anything less than a total or effective prohibition on the military’s recruitment efforts, such a ‘interfere...