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BART cell shutdown pits public safety against free speech
Guest ColumnistBART is the acronym for the Bay Area Rapid Transit system in the San Francisco area. It may also become a historical marker of sorts as we navigate the intersection, with its occasional collisions, of new technology, public safety and our First...Tags: Transportation, Constitutional Issues, Abraham Lincoln, Subway Transportation, Cell Phones
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Patrick: Letters to the editor are the voices of the people
“The job of the citizen,” said the German poet Gunter Grass, “is to keep his mouth open.”
Freedom of speech is the most essential of all civil rights and responsibilities because it is the one that ensures the others. Voting is not...Tags: Politics, Gunter Grass, Justice and Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, Freedom of the Press
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Policinski: Trying to stifle student reporting doesn¿t work
Wanna keep a secret? Betcha can’t — particularly when it involves an arrest and later the resignation of a local teacher. But when allegations of improper conduct involving a teacher are involved, principals still keep trying to stifle the...Tags: Facebook, Politics, Journalism, Arts and Culture, Documentary (genre)
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Constitutional language baffles big-government backers
Contributing columnistWashington Post blogger Ezra Klein stated on MSNBC’s “The Daily Record” that the text of the U.S. Constitution “is confusing because it was written more than 100 years ago, and what people believe it says differs from person to...Tags: Regional Authority, Alexander Hamilton, Crime, Law and Justice, Social Issues, MSNBC (tv network)
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Policinski: Egypt's first steps toward liberty remind us of our own
A small group, using the latest technology, excites fellow citizens with the concepts and possibilities of freedom after years of battling a repressive regime.
As the protests grow more visible and vocal, armed representatives of the current regime try to...Tags: Freedom of Religion, Politics, Freedom of the Press, Church and State Relations, Tea Party Movement
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In a border town, a newspaper forced to be silent
LAREDO, Texas -- A recent wave of kidnappings in Nuevo Laredo was prominently featured in a recent Sunday edition of El Mañana, one of the largest and most long-standing Spanish-language newspapers on the border. But the story carried no byline, and...
Tags: Journalism, Politics, Kidnapping, Justice and Rights, Crime, Law and Justice
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In China, let a thousand blogs bloom
China employs an army of censors. As many as 50,000 well-trained monitors police the Internet, and 12 government departments are empowered to search and seize information and shut down users and sites. They work fast: A recent study conducted by two...
Tags: Nobel Prize Awards, Brad Pitt, Google Inc., Human Rights, Government
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Hollywood yielding to China's growing film clout
Coming soon to a theater near you: China's Communist Party. From demanding changes in plot lines that denigrate the Chinese leadership, to dampening lurid depictions of sex and violence, Beijing is having increasing success in pressuring Hollywood...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Django Unchained (movie), Brad Pitt, Skyfall (movie), Beijing (China)
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Thatcher opponents push 'The Witch' up the charts
This post has been corrected. See note below.LONDON -- The British Broadcasting Corp. faced a dilemma Friday: Would it play "Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead" when everyone knows the song has become a biting reference to the late Margaret Thatcher? The network's solution: turn the song into a sound...Tags: BBC, Politics, Same-Sex Marriage, Freedom of the Press, Music
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Hong Kong film industry changes focus to mainland
HONG KONG — When Mabel Cheung, one of this city's leading directors, shot her historical-political drama "The Soong Sisters" in China in the mid-1990s, the nature of the exchange for the co-production was simple: Beijing provided inexpensive...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Festive Events, Peter Chan, Gordon Chan, Iron Man 3 (movie)
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Myanmar's once-proud film industry a flicker of its former self
YANGON, Myanmar — Down a back road in northern Yangon, a sagging teak house fights back the jungle. On the gate, barely noticeable under the weeds, rusty ironwork spells out "A1 Film." Myanmar's first movie studio, once known as the Burma Film Co....Tags: Politics, Burma, Arts and Culture, Human Rights, Sylvester Stallone
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The Oscars show, nominated films shortchanged in China
BEIJING — Cecilia Wu, 18, is a self-described film freak. Despite the heavy workload of her senior year of high school here in the Chinese capital, she sees a movie every two or three days and has caught most of the films with Academy Award...Tags: AIDS, Zero Dark Thirty (movie), The Amazing Spider-Man (movie), Arts and Culture, Ang Lee
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