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...hindering authorities is New Zealand's weak anti-child pornography regime. Under existing laws, authorities cannot get a warrant to search the property of a person suspected of having child pornography. Such search warrants were used to great effect during the Australian authorities' investigations. Even if New Zealand authorities succeed in charging a person with possession of child pornography, the maximum penalty the suspect faces is a $NZ2,000 fine with no jail time...
...subject to house arrest and other "control orders" like electronic tagging and curfews in cases where prosecution or deportation is impossible. "First we go down the prosecution route," Clarke said, "but in the event that we can't do that, I'm not prepared to ... allow these people to succeed." The human-rights community is up in arms. "House arrest seems to be something that happens in places like Burma," said lawyer Louise Christian, who represents two of the four British detainees who returned from Guantánamo Bay last week. A major concern is that the Home Secretary...
When Summers suggested at a Jan. 14 conference that innate differences between the genders might help explain why fewer women succeed in math and science, he intended to provoke an intellectual debate among a small group of academics. But because of that world-renowned brand name, Summers wound up drawing international attention to Harvard's own shortage of female professors, bolstering a perception that the school isn't welcoming to women and minority academics, and enraging many faculty members, students and alumni of both genders. "It's not appropriate for the man who holds in his hands the future...
...present time there are many theories as to why fewer women than men succeed in math and science, and until we can determine the effects of prejudice, socialization and innate biological differences on this distribution, it is important that we continue scientific research in this area. But in the meanwhile, the position of aspiring female scientists and mathematicians, like myself, is harmed by the prejudices that result from the assumption that our sex is destined to fail. Furthermore, President Summers’ expression of this hypothesis ignores the role that prejudice plays in the employment and evaluation of women...
Even our platform needs to ask for more. Democrats have pursued a strategy that asks as little as possible while offering as much as possible. But the Democrats could learn something from the trend in organized religion. The denominations that succeed are the ones that ask for sacrifice, the ones that are difficult. When he introduced his economic policies, John Kerry used to start off by letting the audience know that he didn’t favor taking from the rich to give to the poor. His programs, he claimed, were all about the middle class. Kerry didn?...