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...small group of students exercising a heckler’s veto.”Darryl Li ’01, a member of the Alliance for Justice in the Middle East at Harvard—which organized the protest along with Harvard Law Student Advocates for Human Rights??responded strongly to Cooper, saying that “the tortured language of the [Society’s] e-mail is clearly disingenuous.” “[I]n ordinary usage, when you say that an event has been ‘cancelled’ that does...
...philosophy. Chertoff begins his thesis by laying out a historical perspective to place Bentham in context before going into an extended discussion about Bentham’s theories of ethics and metaphysics, punching holes in what he saw as Bentham’s lack of a foundation for absolute rights??“since [he] has no absolute concept of right.” But Chertoff saved his best fighting words for the attack on Bentham’s conception of the individual. Bentham operated with no “concept of right” and thus, human...
...first major ambiguity, Teheran has cleverly mastered the use of Western terminology. Referring to ideals like “self-determination” and “inalienable rights?? à la the UN, Iran claims the NPT is clear, and that no one is to interfere with their indigenous ambitions for cheaper, more efficient power. With similarly poetic rhetoric, the second-largest owner of oil fields in the globe tries to convince the international community that it only plans to “diversify” its energy interests. The “widening” Atlantic...
...Ginsburg, who seemed to be on the fence, and Justice Clarence Thomas, who never spoke.Scalia suggested that, by FAIR’s logic, nearly anyone could break the law and claim free-expression protections.“You cannot convert a law into a law directed at First Amendment rights??can you?—by simply saying the reason I am disobeying it is to express, whatever disaffection with the war, homosexuality, or anything else,” Scalia said.Breyer also said he was concerned that FAIR’s argument might allow some schools to receive...
...cannot convert a law into a law directed at First Amendment rights??can you?—by simply saying the reason I am disobeying it is to express, whatever disaffection with the war, homosexuality, or anything else,” Scalia said...