Nevertheless, in her three decades as a prosecutor, including 25 years as head of the sex crimes unit, Ms. Fairstein has been widely viewed in the legal community as skilled and fair, treating victims with delicacy and the accused with vigilance, and sifting through competing claims and sometimes ambiguous evidence.
Regulated "Internet," free press, or speech is by definition not real freedom; so, who would decide it and how would that be fair: treating everybody the same -- for example like a servant or as a child (when you are adult) -- does that make it equal rights -- freedom and rights?
She introduced what she calls the LEED model, Listen and Explain with Equity and Dignity: in essence, be fair, treat everyone with respect and do not humiliate a suspect.
Not every player you'll play with will be nice, play fair, treat you nice, etc.
The U.S. famously has its own recent experiences of blurring lines between real terrorist targets and those just treated as fair game or collateral damage.
Updated at 2.19am GMT 1.31am GMT In pictures: festival food Sydneysiders have greeted Messina's special festival gelato with great delight – the whole menu is made to resemble traditional fair treats.
Mr. Bush made some specific references to human rights issues today, saying he offered Mr. Jiang "My views on the importance of China freeing prisoners of conscience, giving fair treat to people of faith, and preserving the rights of Hong Kong citizens".
Re "For Vanity Fair, Bushes Are Exception to Royal Rule" (Business Day, Aug. 11): I propose a radical alternative view: perhaps Vanity Fair is treating President Bush differently from the royalty of other countries because Mr. Bush's policies are, in fact, radically different.
"If you have a disorder that's changing the function of an organ, which in this case is the brain, and you use a medication to bring the function of that organ closer to where it was meant to be from millions of years of evolution, that's as fair as treating any other disease," he said.
"Good mentors have to be fair — not treating their fellows equally, but doing so according to their performances and working abilities," Chen says.
Last week, President Barack Obama threw his weight behind a "Title II" proposal to keep the Internet free and fair by treating Web access like a utility, not unlike water.
