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...Sedition Act, to the espionage law in 1918. The tighter rules banned a host of offenses, including "any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of government of the United States, or the Constitution of the United States, or the flag of the United States, or the uniform of the Army or Navy...
...Navy lieutenant was off duty and out of uniform. For a shopping trip in downtown Riyadh, she had put on an abayya, the head-to-toe, long-sleeved robe that Saudi women usually wear in public. That wasn't good enough for the mutawa, the vigilantes who enforce Muslim religious laws against impiety and immodesty. A member of the group accosted her as she was entering a shop, prodded her painfully with a long stick and berated her for neglecting to veil her face. A merchant rushed to her defense and explained that she was an American, part...
...floors of the two houses of Congress have become the people's exchange, and it was that way again last weekend for the war-powers debate. No Washington matrons showed up in taffeta, but the galleries were filled with a cross section of Americans, most young, many in uniform...
...dashed almost as quickly as they appear, only to be succeeded by fresh rumors of a peaceful exit. In a sense, it is all familiar. End games fascinate. In school, where we studied them attentively, the chapters were invariably titled "The Drift Toward War." The conclusions, too, were nearly uniform: If only there had been more time; if only the antagonists had understood one another better; if only the crisis had been nipped in the bud before it escalated...
...reason that the Palestinian universities were shut down (again, it should be emphasized, shut down temporarily) is that the universities were indeed being used as centers of protest. However, the protest of choice being employed by the Palestinian "activists" was that of violent rioting and assaults on persons in uniform. Palestinian school administrators have, in fact, asked Israeli officials in many recent cases to close schools temporarily until the violence had subsided...