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Waxman takes a harder stance. "I think the First Amendment is not an absolute guarantee to say whatever [we want] under any circumstances," he says. "We often prevent free speech when it can do harm - such as yelling 'fire' in a crowded theater ... I think there's a balancing. A very limited restriction on the First Amendment right to advertise drugs, if there is such a right, is reasonable for the public safety...
Panasonic will lose $4.2 billion for its fiscal which ends in March. The company says its troubles will cause it to fire 15,000 people. This is the latest in a string of lay-offs by big Japanese companies including Sony...
After this year’s pep rally with popular DJ Girl Talk was abruptly cut short, the CEB came under fire from students in and outside of the Board. Former presidential and vice-presidential candidates for the Undergraduate Council Benjamin P. Schwartz ’10 and Alneada D. Biggers ’10—who both helped organize the pep rally—were forced to answer questions during the campaign about their role in planning the botched performance...
...cites a government plan to make Jaffna a national center for information technology, as part of a larger development program for Tamil areas. "The city used to be known for its excellence in education," he says. But, to the tens of thousands who are fleeing their homes as artillery fire rains down across the northeast, this vision of prosperity and peace seems painfully far away...
...make matters worse, bushfires fanned by the northwesterly winds raged through tinder dry inland regions. Near the Strzelecki Mountain range, about 62 miles (100km) southeast of Melbourne, arsonists were blamed for starting a fire that burned out more than 15,000 acres and cut a swathe through the tiny town of Boolarra. Boolarra resident Peter Stasinowsky, who stamped out embers with his feet and used a garden hose to save his home, described the blaze as "bloody huge."(Read "In Tongues of Flame...