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Demonstrating his constitutional expertise, Dershowitz said that a judge’s authorization would be needed for a specified method of torture—a mere police official could not authorize torture. Dershowitz reached into his knowledge of our collective subconscious and explained that everybody wants torture to be used in such circumstances and would be glad that torture saved innocent lives. He stated that torture is used in such circumstances and that in a democracy it is no good for the people not to publicly deal with that fact and to hypocritically condemn such practices. Democracies have...
...right, howl dogmatisms. Some of them take fat fees from companies like Enron in exchange for a few hogsheads of bloviation. But there should still be enormous respect and affection for the curiosity that you find in the eyes of real journalists, people like Daniel Pearl--not the mere shuck-and-jive entertainers and careerists but the intelligent ones who ask questions and respect facts...
...seems fitting that Murdoch could be the last man standing in the current sports-broadcasting dilemma. He was, after all, present at the creation. Before the 1990s, Europe's airwaves were ruled mainly by public terrestrial television stations, which paid, by today's standards, mere pocket money for the rights to screen football and other sports. But with the advent of private and pay-TV networks came the search for content that would not only attract viewers, but also build the kind of loyal subscriber bases and demographics that advertisers love. The answer? Sport, once famously described by Murdoch...
...will take more than mere wind and rain to faze Tyson, who has seen power close up. And when a Democrat gets back in the White House, a return to the political maelstrom is possible. Consider the reason she has sometimes given for taking the L.B.S. job: "Al Gore didn't win." Q&A TIME: What do you see ahead, economically, given the current slump? Tyson: The evidence points to a picking-up of the global economy in the second half of 2002. It will be a slow recovery to complement a fairly mild and short recession. What people shouldn...
What makes us human—what sets us apart from, say, dogs and chickens—is our consciousness, not the mere fact of our biological existence. A fetus in its first trimester is not a conscious being. It will never know that it might have lived. Its mother, however, is conscious. The characterization of those who have abortions as cold, callow murderers is an unfair rhetorical ploy. The great majority of those who elect to have abortions do so not out of a joy of slaughtering unborn babies, but out of necessity. They inevitably agonize over the decision...