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...N.S.W. government's response has been swift. An emergency sitting of parliament on Dec. 15 passed new laws that will allow police to lock down suburbs and close bars in the event of disorder; a presumption of bail was removed for those charged with affray, and maximum sentences were increased. Police and community leaders have called on parents to impose curfews on their children and to urge tolerance and respect for the law. Meanwhile, never before have so many hoped for the reemergence of an oft-maligned quality: good old Australian apathy...
Countless groups in rap history have borrowed melodic snippets from James Brown and George Clinton’s Parliament. Egregious offenders have been known to rhyme over other artists’ songs practically in their entirety (Vanilla Ice and Puff Daddy, I’m looking in your direction here...
...weeks after announcing his candidacy for the Canadian Parliament, Harvard professor Michael G. Ignatieff outlined the most pressing issues in human rights in an appearance at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum yesterday, touching on topics ranging from international development to the Iraq war. Ignatieff, who is about to begin campaigning full-time in Canada as a Liberal Party candidate, is currently on leave from his position as director of the Kennedy School of Government’s Carr Center for Human Rights. He has spent this semester as the Jackman visiting professor in human rights policy at the University...
...Erian's latest tussle occurred this year, when authorities sent him back to prison for six months for organizing antigovernment street protests. He was released only three weeks before the first round of parliamentary voting. Though freed too late to run for parliament, el-Erian took command of the party's political wing and set up an operations center to coordinate activists, respond to reports of voter intimidation and conduct exit polls. Interviewed by TIME after the final results, el-Erian downplayed fears that the Brotherhood would focus on such issues as banning alcohol and veiling women according to Islamic...
...with Francis Ricciardone, then a young embassy official and currently ambassador to Egypt. So far, the old acquaintances have failed to reunite. Ricciardone suggests the U.S. ban on meetings could be waived for the Brotherhood's M.P.s, telling TIME, "We have always had contact with elected independent members of parliament." Now that they're entering Egypt's halls of power, el-Erian and the Brotherhood aren't likely to be ignored much longer...