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...site, chillingeffects.org, which officially launched last week, seeks to educate the general public about their rights on the World Wide Web as well as monitor trends that affect free speech on the Internet, Seltzer says. The new site received over a million hits in its first two days, according to Diane Cabell, an instructor at the Berkman Center...
Zimbabwe’s presidential election is three weeks away. The European Union has imposed travel restrictions on Zimbabwe’s president, Robert G. Mugabe, and frozen his European assets after he expelled the head European election monitor two weeks ago. The rest of the European monitors have since departed. However, forty election monitors from the British Commonwealth countries (except for the U.K. itself) remain in Zimbabwe, despite the departure of the Europeans...
...mission of a peacekeeper is to prevent violence and the mission of an aid worker is to distribute food and medicine. But the mission of a monitor is different because the sole duty of a monitor is to make judgments. An election monitor decides whether or not the election is fair. A weapons inspector certifies that no illicit weapons exist. When a peacekeeper does a bad job, he still manages to prevent some violence. But when an election monitor does his job poorly or a weapons inspector fails to find the weapons, the situation can become worse. We now risk...
...Mugabe letting the Commonwealth countries monitor the election, and why is Hussein discussing the re-entry of inspectors? It is possible that Mugabe and Hussein have finally decided to take the straight path, but that seems unlikely. These demagogues have only changed their tactics. Mugabe knows that a month is not enough time for a fair election to develop. He has spent years tampering with the political system, whether through amending laws, or scaring away his opposition. Similarly, since the U.N. inspectors were expelled in 1998, Iraq has had ample time to relocate and conceal any chemical, biological or nuclear...
Indeed, all prospective members, including returning danceers, must re-audition. The captains monitor the tryouts, have multiple rounds of call backs and only take a handful of eager applicants. This past year, for instance, over 40 people tried out for the group and only the eventual twelve were selected...