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Within Zimbabwe itself the tectonic plates have been shifting. Toward the end of last year the divided opposition called a truce to work together under the banner of the Save Zimbabwe Campaign. More significantly, Mugabe's own ruling zanu-PF party has begun to split as potential successors become impatient for power. After years of playing off one faction against another, there is now no credible successor whom Mugabe can trust to allow him to retire in peace. He rules now through the Joint Operation Command made up of senior army, police and intelligence officers...
...March 19 the Supreme Court heard the case of Joseph Frederick, an Alaska high school student who, during the 2002 Olympic torch relay, was suspended for displaying the marijuana-slang phrase BONG HITS 4 JESUS on a banner across the street from his school. The ruling should determine the extent of a school's control over messages displayed in a public setting. "I don't see what it disrupts," Justice David Souter said of the pro-cannabis banner. A ruling is expected by June...
...that it should reaffirm in deciding a case it heard last week concerning a student who was punished for displaying a drug-related message across the street from his school. The case concerns Joseph Frederick, a high school student who was suspended for holding up a 14-foot banner that read “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” on the sidewalk next to his school at the 2002 Olympic torch relay in Juneau, Alaska. His principal argued that the sign encouraged drug use and interfered with the educational mission of the school. Kenneth Starr of Monica Lewinsky fame...
...most populist and liberal of the serious contenders for the nomination. In a time of war and terrorist threats abroad, Edwards chose a decidedly domestic, and almost anachronistic, theme around which to build his campaign - the fight to eradicate poverty in America. Will Clinton or Obama take up that banner? Not likely...
...enemy. The crisis came in 1814, when Napoleon's defeat freed British resources for a final push in the U.S. The British tried, and failed, to take Lake Champlain in upstate New York. They burned Washington but were stopped outside Baltimore (a battle that inspired The Star-Spangled Banner), and they prepared to attack New Orleans...