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...come out swinging on other policy matters - voicing his opposition this week to a bipartisan bill to limit greenhouse gas emissions, which he says doesn't go far enough, as well as to the Peru Free Trade Agreement before Congress right now. He's also proposed legislation that would ban for two years the advertising of new drugs, and also supports a West Point-like academy for teachers and a plan to limit security contracting in Iraq...
...York State Senate last week approved a bill banning the image of a noose, the infamous symbol of lynchings. If the State Assembly and Governor Eliot Spitzer sign off on the bill, any etching, drawing, or painting of the symbol will constitute a felony. Though New York legislators believe this measure is a necessary response to recent incidents across the state, we find the measure an inherently bad idea. To be sure, the recent rash of harassing noose imagery in New York is troubling—from the letter sent to a black high school teacher in Brooklyn...
...order, in other words, is intended to protect the alleged victim. Arguably, however, the ban is having the opposite effect. A sensational story about a royal, however minor, would make headlines in some sections of the British press. But any editors considering publishing such a story would have to be certain that any allegations made would not leave their news organizations open to libel charges. Some reports suggest that attempts had been made to sell a story involving the aide and some of the allegations about the royal earlier this year, but none of the newspapers approached took the bait...
...continue the policies of her popular husband Nestor Kirchner, who is credited with saving Argentina from a profound financial crisis. Indeed, the couple's supporters in their Peronist Party believe there is more history to be made and that Fernandez and Kirchner will alternate presidencies, thereby sidestepping the constitutional ban on reelections beyond two consecutive terms and perpetuating themselves in power for an extended period. Says one Peronist insider, "They are calling it the four-by-four" strategy...
With a current driving ban limiting traffic on the road mostly to buses and taxis, it will be some time before Fallujah allows full access to Sinaa. Eventually, the plan is to tear down the barriers one at a time to allow the city to gradually return to normal and end the state of martial law. Doing that in Sinaa could jump-start Fallujah's economy and revive a general sense of well-being and promise, solidifying gains and allowing the Marines to finally leave. "It's the key," said Waleed al Fallujy, Sinaa's mukhtar, or neighborhood chief...