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...application is very tricky, and never more so than in the age of cultural rage. Statutes writ in black and white transmute to a fog of grays upon contact with the passions of competing groups and the difficulties of balancing individual conscience against social cohesion. Some limits, such as libel laws, are considered legitimate to protect individuals, while other restrictions, such as those that regulate obscenity, supposedly protect social standards. Even in the ultra-tolerant U.S., with its fiercely guarded tradition of First Amendment rights, the law restricts many forms of utterance: among other things, child pornography, language that incites...
SASHA COHEN - Will have to fend off Russian skater Irina Slutskaya for Olympic medal SACHA BARON COHEN - Has to fend off libel-suit threats from the government of Kazakhstan...
...even numbers her corrections. But in between comments about commas and subheads, she still sprinkles hugs and thank-yous to the FM staff. For her, we’ll work hard to remember that Subheads Are Not Supposed To Be Capitalized. We are grateful to their presences and their libel-excising pens. —Jannie S. Tsuei
...hotel, with cheeky, cleverly worded queries designed to produce newsworthy answers, seemed to be auditioning for the White House press corps. The President looked into the room holding 550 people around circular tables in the hotel's French Renaissance-style splendor, and called on Didi Goldmark, 63, a former libel defense lawyer from New Hope, Pa. "Since the inception of the Iraqi war," she said, "I'd like to know the approximate total of Iraqis who have been killed. And by Iraqis I include civilians, military, police, insurgents, translators." The topic is a favorite of liberal bloggers and the administration...
William prynne lived in troubled times. in 1637, when the Puritan preacher was convicted of seditious libel for his Taliban-like rantings, England was mired in political and social unrest; the Civil War was only five years away. With no police force, crime was so wildly out of control that the death penalty was routine - by the end of the 17th century it was prescribed for more than 150 offenses. Prynne got off lightly: he was fined ?5,000, had both ears cut off, and was branded on his cheeks with the letters...