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...media relations John Veneziano told me last Wednesday. “Different kids have different takes. Some feel that it’s best to pause, but others might feel that a contest is the best way to regain normalcy in their lives. We decided not to make a blanket decision...
...people coming down from higher floors. We emerged into the building lobby. Just as I turned to face the glass doors and windows facing Maiden Lane, I saw the sky change from beautiful, bright daylight to complete darkness. It was as if someone had taken a giant, charcoal-gray blanket and draped it over the entire building, pressing it tightly against the glass...
...seems like only a few months ago that the federal budget surplus was unfurling like a vast, star-spangled security blanket, a cushion of cash that stretched farther than the eye could see. Wait. It was only a few months ago. In April the White House projected a surplus of $281 billion for this fiscal year and $3.4 trillion for the next 10 years--enough to fund Bush's tax cuts and Congress's spending programs, missile defense and school reform, private Social Security investment accounts and a prescription-drug benefit for seniors, with a ton of money left over...
Last week Bush said he had ruled out "blanket amnesty for illegals." But that was far from a rejection of the ideas that officials of the two countries have been negotiating. These include expanding a guest-worker plan, which Bush made a point of endorsing. And the Fox administration has always rejected the term amnesty...
Fourteen states have adopted some portion of the American Bar Association's Uniform Guardianship Act, which tries to define competency by functional abilities rather than a blanket medical diagnosis. These laws are designed to make it easier to define competency objectively. They also facilitate tailoring guardianships or conservatorships to specific needs. But such arrangements are still difficult to accomplish in practice. Erica Wood, associate staff director of the ABA's commission on legal problems of the elderly, says that in many cases, "the judge virtually gives over his or her decision to the doctor, who is usually not a specialist...