Results for “Day One”

starting well before they were rich and famous. People often have a hard time changing old habits. I know that no matter how much money I now have

…Woody from his earlier film “The Front.” [check dates] He agreed to meet me for lunch. He didn’t know he was my birthday present. When I told him

commenting that the “cynical” may say that “under a program such as Harvard’s one may accomplish covertly what Davis concedes it does openly.” Justice Powell nowhere disputed this. His answer seems to be that even if both programs produce the same result

or to the real world operation of the Harvard program as it probably works in practice. The following description certainly implies that race is not treated differently from other elements of diversity:

“In practice you can do a lot to implement human rights in this generation but in teaching you can both help this generation and help plant the seeds for progress later on.”

neutral standard of human rights? Have human rights now become the permanent weapon of choice for those who practice human wrongs? For shame. For shame.

if the body’s failure to stop suffering was not so serious and not so real. The UN could have intervened more quickly and vigorously and saved millions of lives in Cambodia

Bibi spent a few minutes with us and then invited me to his private office for a confidential meeting. He explained that this was one of the most secure locations in the world and that anything I told him would never leave the room. He then said

and I can only disclose incidents that occurred in public. Here’s one that shows how she earned her title. We were having breakfast in the dining room of her hotel

one must only imagine how it might have been without a Wiesel. It is impossible to imagine the rage that must be continually experienced by direct and indirect survivors of the Holocaust. Other victims have responded by non-peaceful means—for example

truth was not a defense to defamation because a “truthful defamation was deemed more harmful than a false one.” See Alan Dershowitz

a mother engaged in the combined act of trying to kill her autistic and sexually abused son and trying to kill herself. She succeeded in the former and failed in the latter. She reasonably believed that the child’s biological father was repeatedly abusing the 8 year old autisti...

although one with possible legal defenses of necessity (choice of evils) and justification (killing to protect her son). That case is pending as I write these words.

one of its members argued forcefully that attempts to reverse the sequence and have the president elected first (as some have suggested would be preferable because parliamentary elections will be much more complicated than presidential elections) might simply deliver another dict...

… 9/11 attacks and the election of President Obama. He writes regularly for the Radio Times and reviews books for the Sunday Times.