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Given that the First Amendment protects citizens’ right “to petition the government for redress of grievances,” legislators have only limited constitutional leeway to regulate political expression. But without draconian speech restrictions, reformers are left with only marginal changes that do not affect...
Australian David Hicks, 31, was recently handed a nine-month sentence by a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay, and expects to be free by New Year's Eve after five years in legal limbo at the U.S. detention facility. Meanwhile, the so-called "American Taliban," John Walker Lindh, languishes in...
Currently, HDAG’s petition has 1236 signatures, most from Harvard affiliates. —Staff writer Yelena S. Mironova can be reached at mironova@fas.harvard.edu.
Graduate students began collecting signatures yesterday for a letter protesting the University’s decision to deny tenure to Associate Professor of Japanese History Mikael S. Adolphson, a leading scholar of pre-modern Japanese history. The petition, which included the names of roughly 50 undergraduate and graduate students as...
Although Ungr has signed a petition against the deployment of the U.S. radar base, opposition is not being driven by the communist old guard. Most of the people of Zajecov fear that the Son of Star Wars could bring their peaceful village anything from radiation to terrorism.