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Strangely, considerations of laws and property rights are glaringly absent from formal theories of economic growth. Each theory mixes a cocktail of labor and capital, looking for determining factors like technology, investment, education, or democracy...

Author: By Richard T. Halvorson, | Title: The Rights of the Poor | 3/11/2003 | See Source »

...requires that Willis' military mission become a humanitarian one. But Bellucci, 34, tends to have a mesmerizing effect on men, onscreen and off. Despite herself, she's a sublime succubus: Monica demonica. With her voluptuous figure, majestically sullen face and exquisite eyelashes, she projects a quality sadly absent in most Hollywood star-babes: a knowing, passionate womanhood. That could be why in so many of her European films she plays the sort of woman who brings out the obsessive in men just by walking past them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: It's Monica Mania | 3/10/2003 | See Source »

...games in January after Ingram returned from a thumb injury. Catlin had only played about a half-game with Botterill and Chu, splitting time with sophomore Kat Sweet on the first line against Wayne State in January. Both Sweet and Catlin played on the first line when Botterill was absent for a Canadian national team camp the following weekend. After exam break, Stone gave the first line spot to McAuliffe...

Author: By David R. De remer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Lines Set In Stone | 3/10/2003 | See Source »

...team chemistry, which was noticeably absent earlier in the season, has also improved, allowing the Crimson squad to work as a cohesive unit, rather than a group of individuals...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Water Polo Splits Pair Over Weekend | 3/10/2003 | See Source »

...Absent legislation, members of FACTS (Families to Amend California's 3 Strikes) hope to get a statewide referendum on the 2004 ballot modifying the law to only apply to violent offenders on the third offense. The group's founder and executive director Geri Silva believes California voters will support a ballot initiative to focus the law on violent offenders only. While results of a recent poll conducted by a public policy research company indicate strong support (69 percent approval) for the three strikes law, results show as many as 65 percent of California voters would support a "violent offenders only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Wrong With "Three Strikes" Laws? | 3/7/2003 | See Source »

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