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Kennedy criticized Bush for arguing against the University of Michigan’s affirmative action policies in a government brief filed with the Supreme Court last week...
...made headlines with his nomination of the staunchly evangelical, antiabortion John Ashcroft for Attorney General and the decision not to provide taxpayer funds to develop additional fetal-stem-cell lines for medical research. But other moves barely made a ripple by comparison. A year ago, the Administration filed a brief supporting Ohio's partial-birth-abortion ban in an appellate court (not waiting, as it normally would, for the case to hit the Supreme Court). A few months later, it quietly removed from a government website information saying that abortions do not increase the risk of breast cancer. (A replacement...
DIED. PAUL MONASH, 85, film producer of such classics as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Slaughterhouse-Five; after a brief illness; in Los Angeles. He wrote, directed and produced the hit 1960s television series Peyton Place and wrote the TV movies All Quiet on the Western Front and Salem...
...ready to allay voters' fears over mounting lawlessness. The loi Sarkozy, as the legislation proposed by France's high-profile Interior Minister is called, is a ragbag of internal-security measures whose targets include gypsies, beggars and gangs found loitering in hallways, as well as hookers and pimps. The brief section devoted to prostitution abolishes a previous distinction between active and passive soliciting to create a new arrestable offense. Police will be able to detain people they suspect of soliciting for sex and hold them for up to 48 hours. If charged and found guilty, prostitutes face two months...
...Iraqis says that UNMOVIC is exceeding its brief, especially because they have been entering the hallowed presidential palaces - and now mosques. Presidential adviser Gen. Amer al-Saadi said that the UN was trying to make a statement. "It is an attempt to explore the mandate all the way. They were given a pretty powerful mandate and they are exercising it, regardless of whether it is necessary or warranted, " he said. Iraq, he added, was going to cooperate...