{"id":3577,"date":"2005-01-30T16:09:40","date_gmt":"2005-01-30T20:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2005\/01\/30\/tires-spin-and-spin\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:58:01","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:58:01","slug":"tires-spin-and-spin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2005\/01\/30\/tires-spin-and-spin\/","title":{"rendered":"tires spin and spin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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tires spin and spin<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"tiny  As we enter February 2005, nobody can say whether the Iraq elections  “Iraq flag”<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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that brings peace, freedom and security to all its <\/FONT>people (and <\/FONT>peoples), than to point <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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out all the ways this process falls short of an acceptable model for choosing a<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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government.   We can’t let disagreement with Pres. George W. Bush <\/FONT>cause us to hope <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Iraq remains in chaos.  Iraq <\/FONT>may end 2005 <\/FONT>with a government that is far from any our <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Administration would choose.   The American public, pundits and politicians will have<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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plently of time thereafter to decide whether either American policy in Iraq or the state of<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Iraq society and government can be deemed a success. <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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update<\/FONT><\/EM><\/STRONG> (7 P.M.): Prof. Ann Althouse has remarks<\/FONT><\/A> I want to echo: “What profound <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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rarely called upon to show. ”  (which is a sad lead in to the blurb immediately below)<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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\"erasing\"  According to a preview in today’s USA Weekend<\/A> magazine, a new Knight Foundation <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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survey found that “The majority of high school students assign little or no value to the rights <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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73%<\/STRONG> of students take their First Amendment rights for granted or don’t know how <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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21%<\/B><\/FONT><\/FONT> think musicians should not be allowed to sing songs that may offend others.
74%<\/B><\/FONT><\/FONT> believe people should not be allowed to burn the American flag.
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          approval.”<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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<\/SPAN> \"wKeyN\" \"eKey  Wearing her Editor’s hat at Law Technology News<\/EM>, Monica Bay says<\/A> “So count on us to continue <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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to ban jargon that creates walls, rather than <\/FONT>bridges.”  (We agree: Can We Talk About “Virtual” English?<\/FONT><\/A>)<\/FONT>   But, can <\/FONT>we get our favorite Scold<\/A><\/EM> to join us<\/FONT><\/A> in the small <\/FONT>gesture of adding <\/FONT>those two little letters “we” back to the ugly <\/FONT>stub of a word “blog”?  (See <\/EM>Does Blog Jargon Turn Off Outsiders?<\/EM><\/FONT><\/A> and, <\/EM><\/FONT>A (We)blog by Any Other Name<\/EM><\/FONT><\/A>)<\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

floodlit skythe wrecking ball swingsin and out of darkness     opened doorthe darkness lengthensinto a kitten     city dawn–window washersrise on their scaffold     Barry George from The Heron’s Nest (Vol. 3, 2001) “city dawn“, “open door“, “floodlit sky“     from dagosan:  the hush of Sunday morning under new snow — tires spin and spin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-VH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13393,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577\/revisions\/13393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}