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...Mass Communication, says ultimately the issue will come down to the judge's discretion. While Carter says he feels the student work qualifies under the spirit of the law, the judge may not decide to apply the Illinois shield law at all. General legal protections already exist to quash subpoenas if they're beyond the proper scope of an investigation, something Carter believes may apply in this case. "This looks like one of the great fishing expeditions of all time," Carter tells TIME...
...weight. In 1915, the Ottoman Turkish army, fighting against Russia to maintain its territories, sent the region's Armenian population on a "death march" toward Syria. Armenians say 1.5 million were killed in a genocide. Turkey rejects that term, maintaining that the expulsion was a wartime measure necessary to quash Armenian nationalists who sided with the Russians...
...Vice President and a Newsweek reporter, charging them with rioting, conspiring with foreign powers and trying to foment a revolution after the nation's June elections. Iran claims that many defendants admitted guilt, but critics say that the confessions were forced and that the trial is an attempt to quash the inevitable protests surrounding Ahmadinejad's swearing...
...please his allies, the ayatullahs. There's little love in Iraq for the MEK, which was welcomed by Saddam Hussein in the mid-'80s, when he was at war with Iran, and supplied with a training camp and armaments. The group is accused of repaying its benefactor by helping quash Kurdish and Shi'ite rebellions - charges the MEK has denied...
...streets. The government has chosen to rely increasingly on the force, which some believe to number more than 100,000 in Tehran alone, though that statistic is impossible to confirm. In previous days, they were primarily shipped in on a temporary basis from the more conservative countryside to quash planned street demonstrations. But now they seem here to stay. They operate out of the city's mosques, from which they venture out to patrol the streets at all hours of the night on motorcycles, often in small gangs. On a recent night, three Basiji were seen at 2 a.m. standing...