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...vast majority of terrorism cases, judges have sided with the government against the objections of prisoners or their counsel. But there are some notable exceptions, including one case that could undercut some of the government's central legal aims. In March two men, Irfan Kamran, 32, and Sajjad Nasser, 28, were held in prison, charged with harboring an illegal immigrant, while the FBI tried to determine whether they had links to al-Qaeda. Kamran, a naturalized American citizen, and Nasser, a Pakistani, are cousins who had been living legally in the U.S. for years but returned occasionally to their native...
...common sense. The First Amendment was drafted to protect the right of the powerless to say things that the powerful didn’t want to hear. It would be a cruel irony if the amendment were now used to protect the power of the wealthy against the vast majority of Americans who can’t afford to “speak” through seven-figure checks...
...paper is a rare indication from inside North Korea that the country's impoverished masses may be losing faith in the system-or at least getting bored with it. Kim himself is reputed to have a vast collection of foreign movies, some of them blue. Everyone else has to make do with a single state-run TV channel that serves up a starchy diet of Kim coverage, propaganda songs and chaste films with revolutionary themes. But errant desires are hard to control: the document states that customs authorities seized twice as much porn and other contraband in 2002 as they...
...Minh 50 years ago, announced in February that it would only release films with "popular appeal." It has already rejected eight scripts deemed boring. Not all Vietnamese-made films are political. Dang Nhat Minh's Guava Season, for example, is relatively apolitical and has received international praise. But the vast majority of scripts carry the Party message, which is perhaps why so few people pay to see them. The challenge, says Cinematography Department deputy director Nguyen Thi Hong Ngat, is finding ways to appeal to the MTV generation-60% of Vietnam's population is under 25. "We need more skillful...
...nipped its SARS problem in the bud with draconian quarantine measures?one of the few times the island nation's authoritarian reflexes were cheered by the international community, which rewarded Singapore by keeping it off the World Health Organization's (WHO) travel advisory list. But instead of using its vast autocratic apparatus early on, Beijing's leaders lost key weeks in curbing the disease by pretending there was no problem. Now, China's central government is playing a desperate game of catch-up as the number of reported SARS cases ticks ever upward?there were more than 3,900 confirmed...