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With the presidential election less than a month away, the Supreme Court began its 2008 term on Oct. 6 amid speculation on how the future of the court might be shaped by a John McCain or Barack Obama presidency. Although neither candidate has said much about court appointments, the ages of several justices--John Paul Stevens is 88, and four others are in their 70s--indicate some might retire during the next Administration. Meanwhile, the current court under John Roberts will hear testimony in coming weeks regarding everything from labeling on tobacco products to on-air vulgarity. A look...
Members of the conservative Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh, Pa., voted to break from the Episcopal Church amid controversy over same-sex marriage and the ordination of openly gay bishops that has divided the 77-million-member Anglican Communion--to which the Episcopal Church belongs--since 2003. Roughly two-thirds of Pittsburgh-area congregations are expected to join the diocese, which has aligned itself with Anglican churches in South America...
...been the envy of the world, with seemingly bottomless purses to bankroll cutting-edge research, top-notch faculty and construction projects galore. And fiscally speaking, these schools have it better than most businesses in the U.S.: multiple sources of revenue, including parents willing to pay tuition through the nose amid all kinds of money trouble, have often kept these institutions insulated from economic downturns. But in a financial crisis of this magnitude, even the ivory towers are getting hit - and in more ways than one. Not only have Bank of America, Citigroup and some two dozen other lenders cut back...
...another for family and friends - and a will. "I understand he was unemployed, his dealings in the stock market had taken a disastrous turn for the worse," said Los Angeles deputy police chief Michel R. Moore. "This was a person who had been quite successful in this arena." Amid news of the global financial crisis and the credit crunch, this murder-suicide has become emblematic of the times - in its way parallelling the deathly plunges of Wall Street stockbrokers...
...There's a reason for the officers' light touch. For years, British policing has been restrained by the 1981 abolition of the "Sus Law" that had allowed police to stop and search citizens simply on suspicion of criminal intent. "Sus" sparked riots in several British cities, amid charges that it sanctioned racist harassment of young black men. But a surge of youth violence - violent offenses by perpetrators aged under 18 rose 37% in three years to 2006 - has prompted the government to once again beef up the discretionary powers of cops on the street. "Dispersal orders," for example, allow officers...