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...different role—that of justice. Justice sometimes calls for protecting the minority against the majority, for the unpopular decision. Where an electoral system is in place, this function of the judiciary is undermined further. Prospective justices have to embrace platform issues, such as “ethics reform,” in order to market themselves to voters. Apparently, voters respond well to “tough” judges, which sheds some light on Texas’s 26 criminal executions this past year. (No other state executed more than three people, leading The New York Times...
...French officials have made it clear a revision isn't being considered. French Prime Minster Fran?ois Fillon this week said Sebire's plea "touches the limits of intimacy, of what society and the law can say." Likewise, Justice Minister Rachida Dati rejected reform of the existing law, explaining "in no case can death result from a project with which the medical corps is associated." Housing Minister Christine Boutin was even more pointed in rejecting Sebire's request, warning if France "gives the right to kill, we're heading towards a barbarian society...
Matthew L. Sundquist ’09 and Randall S. Sarafa ’09, current Undergraduate Council president and vice president, made Ad Board reform a central focus of their campaign for the Council’s top spots in December. Last semester, the UC formed the Ad Hoc Ad Board Committee, which includes both UC representatives and other students, to seek a student voice in the reform process...
After the discussion, Piotr P. Szamel ’10, a member of the UC’s committee, said he found the talk helpful in understanding the primary challenges involved in Ad Board reform...
...office that she has temporarily converted into the Artists' Headquarters of Reformists. For her plan of action, Hekmat spent one and a half days on the phone and got the signatures of more than 170 of some of Iran's most renowned film people on a pro-reform statement - the first time that a collective statement by artists has been issued in support of a political coalition in Iran. The communiqué states in part, that the cultural difficulties and turbulences afflicting Iran right now are in need of "fundamental changes," and that "this transformation can only come about...