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If it were just about the economy, mate, then Australian Prime Minister John Howard would win his country's upcoming election in a walkover. GDP has grown in each of Howard's 11 years in office, and unemployment is at a 33-year low. Yet barring a last-minute shift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Warming's Impact Down Under | 11/19/2007 | See Source »

What's striking about the decision to set Wilson free is the majority's reliance on the U.S. Constitution's Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. Criminal defense attorneys often cite the language in seeking their client's release, but are rarely successful. In recent years, the U.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wilson's Sentence Overturned | 10/27/2007 | See Source »

For forecasting purposes, in good Halloween spirit, there are two tricks and two treats on the docket this weekend. Barring a major upset, Harvard and Yale will have opened up a two-game cushion over the rest of the field by Saturday evening. The last time the archrivals both began...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AROUND THE IVIES: Few Frights For Top Teams | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

Professors and students at the Law School are placing their bets on the legal legitimacy of online poker. Weld Professor of Law Charles R. Nesson ’60, the founder of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society and of the Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society...

Author: By Samantha L. Connolly, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Prof Pushes for Gambling Bill | 10/24/2007 | See Source »

U.S. leverage over Sudan and Burma is particularly limited. In 1997 Congress protested Khartoum's brutal tactics in southern Sudan by barring select Sudanese companies from involvement in the U.S. financial system. The same year, Congress punished the Burmese junta's "severe repression" by prohibiting U.S. investments in Burma. These...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Human-Rights Vacuum | 10/11/2007 | See Source »

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