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...forced delay would certainly endure a First Amendment challenge. "In free-speech areas, government management of speech, even if it's commercial speech, should always be the last resort," says Billy Tauzin, a former Republican Congressman from Louisiana who now runs Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, the industry's trade association. Banning tobacco ads is one thing - cigarettes can kill you. But these are prescription drugs we're talking about. They at least have the potential to save you, right? (See the top 10 video moments of campaign...
Waxman takes a harder stance. "I think the First Amendment is not an absolute guarantee to say whatever [we want] under any circumstances," he says. "We often prevent free speech when it can do harm - such as yelling 'fire' in a crowded theater ... I think there's a balancing. A very limited restriction on the First Amendment right to advertise drugs, if there is such a right, is reasonable for the public safety...
...time for something completely different and we are going to bring it to them. This is our opportunity. I cannot do this by myself." - Delivering his victory speech on Friday...
...criticism of Slumdog, that would be it. It leans too heavily on this time-honored protest model, one summed up by Crash’s director, Paul Haggis, when he said in his 2005 Oscar acceptance speech that, “Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape...
...fallout inside the Catholic hierarchy could be more lasting. Regensburg was a question of a speech largely directed toward the outside world; and while some still criticize the poorly chosen language, others believe it gave much needed impetus to a more frank discussion about Islam. It was, in any case, the "professor Pope" playing to his strengths...