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...Most Turks have long suspected the existence of a covert web of elements within the security forces and bureaucracy who act outside the law to uphold their own political ends. There is even a household name for it: the "deep state," referring to a state within the state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turkey Busts Alleged Murder Network | 1/28/2008 | See Source »

Still, “There are laws, there are obligations that we have to uphold,” she said, adding later that at least one university president—John McCardell, president emeritus of Middlebury College—has called for the drinking age to be lowered...

Author: By Chelsea L. Shover, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Faust Faces Undergrads at UC Meeting | 1/11/2008 | See Source »

...students and their parents filed the federal lawsuit Dec. 14 after the Three Rivers School District board voted to uphold the punishment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teens Suspended Over Facebook 'parody' | 12/21/2007 | See Source »

...illegal immigrants, and others have said his record shows he is open to raising taxes. Romney, though, has his own problems: many conservatives have labeled him a flip-flopper because he was once pro-choice, though he now says he was wrong on the issue and wouldn't uphold Roe v. Wade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Romney's Conservative Counterattack | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

...best way for Colombia to continue to make progress on freedom and democracy is through economic growth and the engagement that comes with a trade deal. "The FTA allows internal observation of what's happening in Colombia," said Gutierrez. The agreement has special protocols that require Colombia to uphold international labor rights standards. "What I don't understand is how labor will be helped if there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: See Colombia. Ratify Free Trade | 11/28/2007 | See Source »

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