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Even a year ago a Supreme Court injunction would have caused barely a pause in Pakistani politics, but everything changed on March 9, when Musharraf attempted to dismiss an increasingly independent Supreme Court chief justice who threatened to derail the general's bid for another term as President. After an...
The Weinsteins even inspired an online petition to Disney, signed by 14,000 movie fans demanding that the brothers "cease the act of altering Hong Kong films." "If you do this and that for different audiences," says Hong Kong producer Nansun Shi, "you lose the whole raison d'être...
May filed the motion for a stay, as well as a petition for habeas corpus, with U.S. District Judge William Hoeveler in Miami and the judge, who presided over Noriega's original trial, granted a stay by the late afternoon but ordered both the government and Noriega's legal team...
"Signing a petition is always some kind of approximation or a compromise in some sort, because you aren’t the person who originated the statement," said Herschbach, who won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986.
Still, Harvard Students for Israel said in an e-mailed statement that the group would like to see Faust sign the petition. Terming the proposed boycott "a blatant attack on intellectual freedom," the group called Faust's letter a "first step."