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Despite the academic focus, “the trip was pretty relaxed,” according to Hamden. Adolphson gave the students free rein to enjoy Kyoto at night—within reason, of course. The only rule was “if you go out late, don’t wake up the monk,” recalls Hamden...
...favorite rendezvous for al-Qaeda men passing through Pakistan en route to Afghanistan. In response to 9/11, the U.S. denounced these schools, or madrasahs, as terrorist-training academies and called for strict controls on their incendiary teachings. The U.S. hoped the newly cooperative regime of President Pervez Musharraf would rein them...
...instance, often used the power that Congress was granted by the Constitution "to regulate commerce ... among the several states" as the means to legitimize federal mandates on racial integration. To Rehnquist, this is a perversion of the Constitution, and he has been on a three-decade-long quest to rein in federal power. As early as 1975 he was arguing--in another lone dissent--that states could resist a mandate from Congress by asserting that the framers believed in much greater state sovereignty. And here he has made the most headway, getting a majority of Justices to agree with...
...fairly new and vibrant Democratic constituency that transcends his left-wing peacenik stereotype. It is young, middle class, white and wired. Standing on the aft deck of the ferry from San Francisco to Marin County, the Governor was approached by a stream of computer geeks: a woman named Lisa Rein, who has a weblog; a man named Eric Predoehli, who has a website; as well as several people from among the 35,000--astonishing if true--who had joined the Dean affinity group on Meetup.com Dean seemed nonplussed by it all. "I have no idea how any of this works...
China's leadership is drafting an overhaul of its communist-era constitution that would include guarantees of private-property rights. But freedom of the press will probably not be part of any charter-reform package. In its latest attempt to rein in the country's increasingly boisterous media, the Party's Publicity Department?formerly the Ministry of Propaganda?this month ordered the closure of the Beijing New Times newspaper after it ran an article criticizing China's congress. The department also forbade coverage of other sensitive topics, including Jiang Yanyong, the doctor who exposed the government's cover...