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...Askar Enazy, a professor of international law in Riyadh and an outspoken critic of the regime, complains that the clerics "are allowed to run rampant. The al-Saud believe if they oppose them, it will undermine their own legitimacy as rulers. They had the opportunity to crush them many times before but chose not to." Mohammed al Odad is a government minister in Abha, but he is dismayed. "The fundamentalists have total control of the masses," he says. "It gets worse and worse." Parents say they are fed up with the Wahhabist school curriculum, which rears students on a diet...
...Denver's Bruce Baumgartner has been one of the country's most outspoken critics of the TSA, and he took a great deal of time to explain to us the alternative systems he has researched and proposed for his airport. It's a thin line for Baumgartner, and for me, really. Of course we want airport security to be airtight, and we do not want to reveal anything that might aid someone who wants to do harm. In my reporting since Sept. 11, I have discovered a number of security issues that I have in the end not written about...
...officials believe bin Laden's organization has acquired nuclear materials, allegedly from Pakistan. Although the Pakistani government pooh-poohed the reports and insists its nuclear program is in safe hands, it had earlier placed two of its best-known former nuclear scientists in "protective custody." One had been an outspoken supporter of the Taliban...
...leaders of the country he had helped to make a superpower were rebuffed. By the 1960s, Sakharov was both an oft-decorated Hero of the Soviet Union and an increasingly astute figure politically, moving "toward purer science and toward the highly impure world of social activism." He became an outspoken critic of repression, an intervener on behalf of dissidents and a force within the nascent Soviet human- rights movement. Years were marked by highs and lows: in 1968, Sakharov was barred from all military research; in 1972, he married his soulmate and second wife, the activist Elena Bonner...
Summers has been an outspoken supporter of Harvard’s ROTC program, which was kicked off campus by the Faculty in 1969 and now continues through a cross-registration program at MIT that is funded through an alumni trust unaffiliated with the University...