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...Gloucester Road in west London (you'll look for it in vain). He takes the tube to Temple by the Thames River. It's just a short stroll through Temple Gardens to his chambers in the Inner Temple, a campus of tree-lined courtyards, fountains and gardens where the legal profession has hung out since the 13th century. Visitors can stroll around or drop in at the 12th century Temple Church. (See pictures of London...
...dissent, there were always some signs of hope and potential advances on other fronts," says Nicholas Bequelin, a China researcher with the New York-based Human Rights Watch. "But recently the good news has been very few and far between. There has been a total lack of progress on legal reform, the media, rural reform, labor. These issues were very much carrying forward hope for opening up of Chinese society, but now there's just nothing on the horizon." (Read "China Takes on the World...
...even if accepted by the electorate, the law may prove difficult to implement, says Daniel Kettiger, a legal expert on public administration and management who has been following the Appenzell debate. The proposed legislation, he points out, would prohibit "misbehavior in public places" but would not specifically target nudity, "so its interpretation will be open-ended, because a nude hiker is not necessarily unruly...
...possibility of a new penal code (no pun intended) makes his flesh crawl. "Some people may see nudity as indecent, but what harm does it do to public security and order?" he asks, adding that he has already convened about a dozen other nude-hiking aficionados to devise legal action. If the law passes, "we will sue Appenzell," he says, vowing to take the case all the way to the Federal Court - Switzerland's highest judicial authority...
...more voices are speaking up to support Sarkozy's and Sabeg's ideas. The number of minority characters on television, film and in the media generally has noticeably increased over the past few years. People in other industries have begun pointing out the practical problems created by the legal ban on including ethnic data in official statistics. "From a sociological point of view, I'm for it, just as I'd be inclined to include any qualitative statistic as revelatory and essential to social, political and economic evolution as race is," says Dominique Reynié, president of the Foundation...