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...delays. And changing the culture of the FAA so it's less reliant on airline self-regulation, as the Department of Transportation's Inspector General recommended this week, will require significantly increased funding for inspectors - something that's unlikely to happen by Memorial Day. Kate Hanni, who became an outspoken activist for a still-pending passenger's bill of rights after being stuck for hours on a notorious American Airlines flight in December 2006, says this week's upheaval has only been a reminder of what travelers in the U.S. have learned to put up with. "After a while, when...
...candidate who relies on his carefully cultivated image as a straight-talking, maverick, John McCain has few issues as symbolically important as torture. No Republican has been as outspoken an opponent of prisoner mistreatment and abuse as McCain, and his own painful experience as a prisoner during the Vietnam War has granted him a unique moral authority on the issue...
...have sovereignty over everything else. But more and more Tibetans in exile ask how they can sit by and practice nonviolence while their homes and families are being wiped out by the Chinese occupation. "Why is he thinking of the future and not the present, the past?" asks an outspoken Tibetan in Dharamsala who once fought with the cia-trained guerrillas violently resisting the Chinese. "I want freedom in this world, not from this world...
Silverglate, an affiliate of Dunster’s Senior Common Room, touched on topics ranging from gossip blogs to protest art. An outspoken proponent of unlimited free speech rights, Silverglate fielded several questions from a small group of students on the recent calls for Ad Board reform that have come both from College administration and undergraduates...
...Tajirika, a dimwitted political schemer. His tale, too, deals with chauvinism. Tajirika is married to Vinjinia, the perfect wife, who accepts his many affairs. Along with the Ruler, he represents the corrupt, repressive status quo. Tajirika is frightened by the specter of a feminist movement and the increasingly outspoken reaction of women against the increasingly intolerant political regime. These women seem utterly foreign to Tajirika’s traditional vision of the quiet, demure housewife. In response to the political upheaval caused by the feminists and other progressives, Tajirika, feeling more and more politically impotent, turns to asserting his masculinity...