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...Haviaras upheld Adams' right to stage a protest...
This vision of volunteering is exceptionally demanding, and I can't claim to have upheld its standards through my time working with disadvantaged individuals. Too often I have been exhausted by it, or by the infinitely more difficult task of transmitting the passion and commitment that comes with such understanding to a collection of raw recruits. Yet despite its stresses, I think it's worth it. For only by cultivating these connections between the personal and the political can we hope for lasting social change, and for a chance to put ourselves out of business as volunteers...
...says TIME's Philip Elmer-DeWitt of Tuesday's Supreme Court ruling that denied copyright protection to the "menu command" portion of Lotus' 1-2-3 spreadsheet software. Voting without Justice John Paul Stevens, who earlier excused himself for undisclosed reasons, the court on a divided 4-4 vote upheld without comment a lower court ruling that Borland did not violate copyright laws when it incorporated an almost identical menu command bar into its own Quattro spreadsheet programs because the menu is a "method of operation" which does not qualify for copyright protection. "People in the computer industry see this...
...three-judge panel in Beijing upheld a 14-year sentence for Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng. One of the leaders of the 1979 Democracy Wall movement, Wei has spent all but seven months of the past 16 years in prison on charges of sedition. It was Wei's continued pro-democracy activities during a seven month period while on parole in 1993, chief among them a meeting with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State John Shattuck, that led to his arrest and trial. "From the government's point of view, Wei did something wrong," notes TIME's Hannah Bloch. "He continued...
...supervise the provisions of the ceasefire and ensure that the combatants withdraw to established lines. Without an international presence on the ground, mutual distrust would in all likelihood lead to a breakdown in the fragile accord. The NATO force guarantees each side that the peace will be upheld and has the strength to enforce it should opposition emerge...