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...Iowa decision's precedent is less forceful. (Read the full decision) Iowa decided, instead, that the statute banning gay marriage fails a subordinate level of constitutional analysis, what courts call "intermediate scrutiny," an approach usually used with cases involving discrimination on the basis of gender, for instance. Because the statute could not even meet that standard, Cady ruled that there was no need to decide whether a higher level of scrutiny should be required in the future...
...While cash-strapped shoppers might want to start tying their hands behind their backs, retailers should hang signs that say "Feel me." For a subtler approach, the authors single out the Apple Store as a model. Apple openly invites its customers to fidget with its gadgets, and once you start playing with the iPhone, it's awfully hard to leave the place without one. Shu says that at Office Depot, she has seen pencil packages with holes in the plastic. These holes encourage consumers to poke around. (See the best business deals...
...Syria-first approach to peace talks has often encountered resistance in diplomatic circles, on the grounds that the core of the Arab-Israeli conflict is the Palestinian problem. That may be true, but the counterargument might go that in the Middle East, you have to play the hand you're dealt. Despite their hawkish talk, Netanyahu and Lieberman are unlikely to resist an opportunity to conclude a peace agreement between Israel and Syria. Nor is Obama...
...None of this necessarily puts the U.S. and Pakistan on a collision course. The Obama Administration has begun to talk of reconciliation with moderate Taliban elements, and some in the Pakistani leadership may be hoping to move Washington closer to the approach urged by Musharraf at the very beginning of the war: separating the Taliban from al-Qaeda...
...That's typical of the German leader's restrained approach and a salutary reminder, amid the backslapping, that the political success of the summit - the fact that leaders can go home and tell their citizens they did good - shouldn't be confused with its real, practical impact...