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...awareness of the disease. He responded to a heckler at a hospital by saying, "I'd rather have that man in here screaming at me than have him give up altogether." Earlier, Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala announced a plan to accelerate research, and Attorney General Janet Reno promised to fight for prosecution of doctors and nurses who refuse to treat AIDS sufferers...
...speech was important for another reason: It avoided the frighteningly anti-free speech rhetoric that liberals from Illinois Senator Paul Simon to popular Attorney General Janet Reno have employed recently...
Clinton rejected the Big Brother approach of Simon and Reno, one not made constitutional by the mere fact of its popularity. Hollywood probably will not heed the president's plea, but the nation should take notice of his emphasis...
...such, Clinton's words constitute both a valuable defense of free speech and a powerful reminder that speech is a freedom that should be exercised responsibly. Had Clinton added his weight to the Reno-Simon censorship chorus, he would have contributed presidential momentum to a dangerous movement to curtail First Amendment freedoms instead of asking Americans to take responsibility for what they and their children view...
...fact, anyone with a desktop computer and a modem connecting it to a phone line can now find ways into and around the network. "The Internet isn't just computer scientists talking to one another anymore," says Glee Willis, the engineering librarian at the University of Nevada at Reno and one of nearly 20,000 (mostly female) academic librarians who have joined the Internet in the past five years. "It's a family place. It's a place for perverts. It's everything rolled into...