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...nationwide awarded $50,000 grants by Britain's Home Office to test the cameras, following an initial trial run last year in the Northern city of Middlesborough. The talking cameras are the latest advance in a country that's embraced video surveillance with an enthusiasm that would make Orwell shudder. Liberty, a civil liberties group, conservatively estimates there are 4.2 million CCTV cameras currently in operation in the UK, one for every 14 residents. Anyone living or working in London will likely be captured on camera 300 times a day, the group claims. Indeed, the government's information commissioner, Richard...
...political violence: The blast killed four people and wounded 20, but none of the American diplomats who were its presumed targets was harmed. Even so, as the first attack targeting U.S. officials in Lebanon since the end of the civil war in 1990, the bombing will send a nervous shudder through the small but growing American community in Beirut...
...polls and pundits to shame in New Hampshire. On both sides, it was a political roller coaster of the old school - the wooden kind that shakes and quakes until you really aren't sure how it will end. And then it pulls in to the finish with a shudder, and everyone piles off to get back in line...
...that the just policy can be surgically and indirectly effected by economic manipulation—only sets us up for disappointment and disillusionment.Politics should be the preserve of reason, where arguments about the common good and the individual good are entertained, disputed, and resolved. It should not have to shudder at the specter of busybody protestors and petition-signing extortionists. Moral indignation is an important passion for politics—it serves as a corrective to abstract cold reason gone astray. But it is nevertheless extremely powerful and should be used wisely. We should hope and pray for the abject...
...like a whore,” she said, tugging down on her shirt. “Plus, when I’m not saving the world, I do like to have a little fun.” And you’re promoting equal gender rights to boot! I shudder at the thought of Sexy Uncle Sam. Bet you didn’t think that you would still be dressing up for Halloween in college. “It’s great, this is about the only cause that Harvard students are dedicated to,” she smirked...