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Monthly Archives: April 2007

a few of my favorite things

04-Apr-07

Krissa has up a blog post covering a few of my favorite things:

reminiscing about our first trip to paris
a warm goat cheese salad
a beautiful picture (using the new lens I got her for her birthday)(need to mess with whitebalance, still…)
the ability to get lots of fresh food right here in the city

Big hugs to my [...]

very slightly more on the defense of necessity

04-Apr-07

I mentioned yesterday that we read a torture case as part of my criminal law class’s reading on the defense of necessity. Today in class the professor suggested reading ‘Cannibalism and the Common Law.’ Cannibalism, torture- all in a day’s work for a law student, apparently.
[In case you're wondering what cannibalism has to do with [...]

Israeli Supreme Court on Torture

03-Apr-07

We are aware that this decision [banning torture] does not ease dealing with that reality [of terrorist attacks on Israelis.] This is the destiny of democracy, as not all means are acceptable to it, and not all practices employed by its enemies are open before it. Although a democracy must often fight with one hand [...]