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...that Iran’s Guardian Council has kicked more than 2000 reformist candidates off the ballot for this month’s parliamentary elections, this bind between sticking to ideals and satisfying the demands of pragmatism is even more acute. Such a flagrant disregard for the democratic process should not go unchecked. But the U.S. cannot stand alone and expect to do any good; America’s voice should be one of many objecting to Iran’s anti-democratic behavior. President Bush should leave his undue pride on the doorstep and approach the United Nations...
Furthermore, the laws that govern these television broadcasts are ludicrous in their arbitrary application—to the point of absurdity. The traditional few-second delay of live performances allows for only verbal indiscretions to be deleted, while more flagrant displays of inappropriate behavior are left for public consumption. As for the words deleted, the determination of what can and cannot be said (and when) on network television is bound by complicated legal codes. Due to this strange condition, for last week’s Grammy Awards telecast, CBS employed an astounding 5-minute video delay to preempt...
...Miami events. Kennedy School of Government academics could do a comparative study of the Cancun and Miami models of policing protests. Most importantly, now that Harvard has formally contracted with the Worker Rights Consortium, an independent watchdog over its licensing practices, faculty and students can identify and reform the flagrant sweatshop abuses that abound in “free trade zones” that will be expanded by the Free Trade Zone of the Americas proposed in Miami...
...emptive disarmament was never more than a pretense for going after Saddam, and if anyone took it seriously as a doctrine, Bush’s flagrant abuse of incomplete intelligence robbed it of all legitimacy. Likewise, the presumption that life without Saddam could only get better, for Iraqis and Americans alike, exploded with the terrorism of the occupation. Many Iraqis still lack needs more basic than the lofty freedoms in our Bill of Rights, and U.S. security interests at home and abroad are now seriously compromised, with hatred compounding everyday throughout much of the Arab world...
...court papers, E. Joshua Rosenkranz, the lead counsel for the plaintiffs, called the Solomon Amendment “one of the most flagrant efforts by the government in decades to use its power of the purse to suppress expression...