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...exceptions from legal protections claimed by the U.S. vis-à-vis its terror suspects are, by any measure, much more substantial than those taken by the British (the ones recently found to be untenable and unlawful). Although the U.K. “opted out” of Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights (which enshrines the right to liberty) in passing the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act, the U.S. has denied terror detainees, most notably at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, both rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and the protections...
...Bradley S. Epps, who is professor of Romance languages and literatures and of the study of women, gender and sexuality, said Summers “is in an asymmetrical position vis-a-vis faculty, students and staff...[H]e can draw lines and make grand statements as to the inviolability of the lines that he draws in a way that is untenable for others...
...does it affect the child if his parents cannot be married?” Ginsburg asked, pressing the team arguing for the act’s constitutionality. “Every child adopted by a same-sex couple will be disadvantaged vis-a-vis a child adopted by a homosexual couple...
Using Mary Cheney as a test case, let’s examine the two clear-cut camps. The first is choosing to live with constant consciousness of ourselves and our position vis-a-vis lines of oppression, and the second is to act as the individual within who is blissfully unaware of inequality. Clearly I am simplifying matters, but I think the camps represent the two poles between which we wander: paranoia and ignorance...
...Although the peasants initially benefited from Deng Xiaoping’s economic reforms, particularly land reforms in the late 1970s, by the 1990s, those reforms petered out and the farmers’ economic situation deteriorated vis á vis the cities,” she wrote in an e-mail. “It’s because of these reasons that farmers are protesting all over the country...