Word: sovereignity
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...collection is owned by Iran.Both sides have issued a flurry of court filings since the suit was filed in U.S. District Court for Massachusetts on March 28, and now await a judge’s ruling. Though courts have awarded plaintiffs billions of dollars in judgments under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA), a 1976 law that allows citizens to sue foreign nations in U.S. courts for acts of terror, few nations actually pay the damages. The plaintiffs’ legal maneuver—focusing on a university—is an unprecedented compensatory strategy that could be consequential...
...Africa is long overdue. It is difficult to imagine how the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and AAAS could prioritize the study of a roughly 40 million-strong demographic group, however important, within a single country over the study of the second largest continent in the world, with 54 sovereign states and over 800 million people, a seventh of the total world population. Africa contains a multitude of different cultures and peoples living in a land-mass of great climactic, topological, ecological diversity. It boasts the longest human history in the world, featuring several proud and vibrant civilizations...
...MASS. AVE. $1.50 When you need cash for emergency mixers late at night, go to this machine. Though you won’t be able to enter the enclosed area if you’re not a Sovereign Bank member after business hours, you can always get to the outdoor ATM, one of the few unprotected machines in the Square—and also the best playing field for would-be muggers and thieves. You know...
...subject to the interests and politics of a certain geographical jurisdiction willing to keep absolute control over Internet governance.” If only we would listen to the Solaymanis of the world. If only the Internet were controlled by the UN or some other supra-national and super-sovereign entity, then we could get wonderfully diverse opinions about Internet governance, and China could better censor websites that contain words such as “liberty” or “Tiananmen Square.” Luckily, the usual gang of anti-Americans didn’t succeed...
...Saddam in court. Al-Dulaimi intends to prove that the tribunal is illegal because it was set up under occupation. As for the charge that Saddam ordered widespread torture and killing in Dujail in 1982, the lawyer will argue that Saddam was acting legally as a leader of a sovereign country to protect himself from assassination. Says al-Dulaimi: "Iraqis are resisting the invasion. Some of them choose armed resistance. I chose peaceful resistance by defending the President." Now, however, the defender needs defending...