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...mind can harbor such considerable doubt on the applicability of the law over which he nominally presides, the upstanding citizen must be permitted a degree of skepticism with regard to the more picayune demands of that same law (for example, speed limits, and the pettier larcenies). It may prove helpful to think of the various penny-ante admonitions of the powers-that-be in a given free nation-state as ‘strong suggestions,’ rather than written legislation or penal code, even if in every case they are of the latter class. With this perspective...
...launching a committee to review the treatment by the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) of minorities on campus, the University has taken an important step toward addressing and improving race relations at Harvard. Although many such committees—especially those at Harvard—prove to be the deathbeds rather than the springboards of initiative, the University has vested this particular committee with the influential members and wide latitude necessary to effect positive and tangible change in how HUPD interacts with minority groups on campus. Now, the Harvard community can only hope that this committee makes good...
...previous year, Human Rights Watch reported, amid a dispute over civilian fatalities in an Aug. 22 attack. New video footage has prompted U.S. investigators to re-examine their initial conclusion that most of the strike's casualties were Taliban. One tribal elder offered to dig up victims' graves to prove their innocence...
...their personal stories, parade their families and brandish their scars, the Conservatives trust that buttoned-up Brits care less about such things. They are betting that class no longer determines electoral outcomes. They may well be right. But even some supporters fear that the making of Cameron could yet prove his unmaking. For now, though, his rise offers powerful evidence not just of his political prowess but also of how much Britain has changed...
...Sarkozy's Syria visit may prove conveniently prophylactic in other ways, too. In the wake of the Russia-Georgia conflict and Moscow's de facto occupation of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, Assad declared his support of Moscow amid widespread international condemnation. Assad even proposed that Syria host Russian missile systems to counter the interceptor system the U.S. is establishing, over Moscow's objections, in Poland and the Czech Republic. The Russians promised Assad military training and arms sales during his visit to Moscow late last month...