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...from a civilian intelligence oversight board by the White House, and the compilation of suspicious activity reports from banks by the Treasury Department. On Thursday, Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine released a report documenting continuing misuse of Patriot Act powers by the FBI. And to judge from the reaction in the country, nobody cares...
...keen to play up. For Tibetan activists and human rights campaigners, the Indian crackdown seems uncharacteristically heavy-handed. "The Indian police should immediately release the marchers detained, lift the restraining order and allow the march to continue peacefully," says Sophie Richardson, Asia advocacy director at Human Rights Watch. "Any reaction by the Indian government must be proportionate to the threat posed to law and order...
Taking the history of the public’s reaction to no-smoking policies into account, Brandt said that he does not foresee much difficulty in enforcing the new regulations...
...suffers fromSchwartz’s lack of engagement with thecentral character. He doesn’t feel theneed to empathize with her. He playsaround with the facts of her life withoutever assembling them into a character.His attitude can be embarrassingly reductive,as when Haruko describes theEmperor’s reaction to her breakdown:“The hurt frustration he showed on realizinghis insufficiency—the woundedperplexity of a deeply practical manin the face of irregularities of a femalenature (that apparently sound mechanismwhich nonetheless may decide, forwhatever reason, simply to cease functioning)—could not contain itself...
...reaction provides an insight into our natural empathy with certain animals. Jeffrey Masson ’64, a bestselling author on the emotions of animals, told me that the golf incident reflects an instinctual human affinity for pets and wildlife, heightened by the exposure that modern media gives us to these creatures. “We’re so similar emotionally to animals, but we only believe it when we see it for ourselves… and now with nature documentaries and YouTube videos we’re seeing...