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...news ticker, installed under President George W. Bush at a low point in diplomatic relations, from the windows of the American mission in Havana. The sign, used to annoy Cuban officials with pro-democracy messages, had been blocked by Fidel Castro with massive black flags. According to American University professor Robert A. Pastor, the act of goodwill "has permitted both sides to act like mature adults...
Among the many gray areas and judgment calls in law enforcement, disorderly conduct is one of the fuzziest. Just ask Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., arrested July 16 after yelling accusations of racism at an officer responding to a reported break-in at his home. Statutes outlining the misdemeanor are designed to help police maintain authority, and they are broadly worded; deciding what constitutes disorderly conduct is typically at an officer's discretion...
While some say the laws' broad definition leaves them open to abuse, Tom Nolan, a former officer and Boston University criminal-justice professor, begs to differ. "Police pride themselves on resolving issues, and 99% of the time it occurs without arrests," he says. Disorderly conduct charges are made when "there really isn't any other choice...
When I run this example by Lucian Bebchuk, a Harvard Law School professor who has supplied much of the intellectual firepower for the current pay-regulation campaign, he has a ready retort. "When they run out of good, substantive arguments, they come to the argument of unintended consequences," he says of pay-regulation opponents. "We have seen the consequences of the lack of intervention in the last 10 years. We have lived with that experiment...
...were possible to choke off the gasoline supply into Iran, the likelihood is that Iran's existing refinery capacity would be used first and foremost to ensure that the needs of the security forces and the regime are taken care of," says Dr. Gary Sick, a Columbia University professor and former National Security Council Iran specialist. "Those who are going to suffer most will be the ordinary Iranians with whom we sympathize. You can argue that this might spur them to revolt, but more likely is that if their fuel rations are suddenly cut in half, ordinary Iranians will...