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...concern over terrorism is not unfounded. The U.S. has never been as free of it as Americans pretend. Before the media wax too self-righteous over the World Trade Center conspiracy, let us remember that 1993 marks the centenary of another ''great conspiracy.'' In 1893 the Governor of Illinois pardoned the surviving defendants of the Haymarket bombing case, which came out of the 1886 riots between police and labor protesters in Chicago. He condemned the case as a fraud and the resulting executions of defendants as judicial murder. Following the pardon, a monument was dedicated to those who had been...
...pragmatists in the government. The differences were highlighted last year by the case of Gillian Gibbons, an English teacher jailed after her class of seven-year-olds named a teddy bear Mohammed. She was convicted of insulting Islam's Prophet, but was released days later with a presidential pardon...
...Angels in America” author Tony Kushner opened the Tanner Lectures on Human Values last night with a rapid-fire monologue by a character named Tony Kushner—a neurotic writer completely unprepared to give a speech “at—you should pardon the expression—Harvard.” The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright’s apologies drew laughter at every line from a Lowell Lecture Hall audience of more than 250, including University President Drew G. Faust. It was a slyly appropriate opening to a speech entitled “Fiction...
...Huckabee had lost control of his Christian calm and spent most of his stump speech railing against Romney. This was pretty shocking for a primary, where attacks tend to be muffled because the losers eventually support the winner. Huckabee was particularly miffed by Romney's ad about the pardons. He told the crowd the story of one pardon - an Iraq-war vet who came home, worked his way through college and wanted to become a police officer but couldn't because he had fired a BB gun at a friend when he was 13 years old. "Now, how many...
...rural poor have voted for the PPP, a party made up largely of former TRT members whose leader, Samak Sundaravej, says he will pardon Thaksin and bring back his populist agenda. But bringing Thaksin back is easier said than done. It risks antagonizing military leaders, who fear the former Prime Minister will seek revenge for the coup; Muslims in Thailand's restive south, who suffered under the military clampdown imposed during his rule; southerners in general, who traditionally vote for the Democrats and felt ignored by Thaksin's government; and his longtime foes, the urban, Bangkok-centered middle class. Some...