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...police officers] was quoted as saying he ‘wanted to teach me a lesson?? by a witness,” Counter said...
...uses the first periods he describes to acquaint the reader with the background of the tension between civil liberties and wartime necessity. As Stone covers each age, he connects earlier incidents and lessons learned to issues today. Surprisingly enough, although history often repeats itself, governments seem to learn their lesson??sometimes. Though the U.S. infamously forced Japanese Americans into internment camps during Word War II, for example, President Bush encouraged fair treatment of American residents and citizens of Muslim and Middle Eastern descent following September 11, 2001. Each chapter of the book covers a different...
...interpretation of the Boy Scouts ruling.As the Third Circuit ruling demonstrated, the same legal principle that can be used to further gay rights in one context also can be used to defend anti-gay policies in another.For some civil rights activists, that’s a frightening lesson??because it means FAIR could win this battle and lose the wider war.‘DO WE REALLY WANT FAIR TO WIN?’University of Mississippi law professor Paul M. Secunda ’93, a former Eliot House government concentrator, opposes the “don?...
Adomanis’ final “lesson?? is that we need to react early to small threats before they grow into apocalyptic battles for civilization, by which he seems to mean that the feudal states of Europe should have built a proto-alliance (of the willing) to hunt out the Ottomans when they were still just Balkan colonists. That’s ridiculous for two reasons: one, battling people who don’t pose a threat is a great way to over-expend resources. Should Europe also have allied to crush the Magyars...
...quantity of fun possible while taking minimal time out of busy schedules, and minimal money out of slim wallets. Thanks to one of the little known perks of $40,000 in fees, Harvard students can find themselves skimming along the Charles River free of charge, after one half-hour lesson??although more time may be required for the “really uncoordinated,” according to a member of the Weld Boathouse staff...