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While the new stance appears to reflect the positions of Bush administration hawks more inclined to adopt Sharon's own hostility to any move to engage with Arafat, it may also save the Secretary of State a high-profile failure. U.S. officials had made clear to Arafat aides that Powell's agenda for would focus primarily on getting Arafat to publicly renounce terrorism and call for a cease-fire, but Palestinian officials have made clear that while Arafat may accept the idea in principle, he'll make no such calls before Israel has withdrawn its forces from all Palestinian Authority...
America should adopt a system resembling that of the Netherlands, which allows adults to use marijuana responsibly and minimizes minors’ exposure—leading to lower use among adolescents than in the United States. Marijuana is sold in government-regulated “coffee shops,” which must follow five basic regulations: no advertising, no sales of hard drugs, no nuisance, no sales to people under 18 and no sales of more than five grams per transaction. Individual municipalities can regulate closing times and other rules for coffee shops. In general, individuals are allowed to possess...
Somehow the personal narrative sections adopt a similarly aloof, mostly emotionless posture; Marcus is fully immersed in an alternate universe that we can only pick up in bits and pieces. The weirdness of this world is only revealed to us through matter-of-fact, but completely internally contained, descriptions of smaller, bizarre episodes or rituals...
...wake of Sept.11 and the anthrax mailings, the Centers for Disease Control recommended that states adopt a model law creating sweeping new powers to deal with public-health emergencies. State officials could order citizens to be vaccinated, quarantine those suspected of having a contagious disease, take over hospitals and physicians' offices and seize and destroy property deemed a threat to public health. Since January at least 30 states have considered adopting all or part of the model law, but they've run headfirst into a motley coalition of civil liberties groups, religious conservatives, free-marketeers and gay-rights activists...
...interview with TIME, McCain says he wants to capitalize on the campaign-reform bill's success by following it with other initiatives, such as getting states to adopt campaign-reform laws and giving the Federal Elections Commission greater enforcement power...