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...issue is judicial supremacy. We acquiesce to it for one very good reason. The reason is not theoretical (it being hard to understand why the one unelected branch should be supreme over the other two) but practical. We all need a place where the buck stops. When Nixon and Congress were at odds over the White House tapes, the supremacy of the Supreme Court enabled a final resolution of the issue...
...slew of effects, including action capture and moving zoom. You can also use it to play video games. iPAQ H3650 Pocket PC COMPAQ, $499 The most powerful handheld Pocket PC features a rich color screen, a built-in MP3 player and scaled-down versions of popular Microsoft software titles. Buck Rogers, meet James Bond...
...main policy clashes in this election center around health care. Both Chretien and Day have shown troubling tendencies to buck the Canadian tradition of universal coverage. In 1995, Chretien cut back health care transfer payments to the Canadian provinces, effectively throwing the ball into the provinces' court for the insurance of universal health care security. This has opened the door to serious talk of privatizing health care services. In Alberta, Day's home province, for-profit clinics have been heralded as health care's future. Day himself is an enthusiastic proponent. Today, Chretien puts his support firmly behind government-funded...
...they hinted at it, calling "voter intent" to be paramount and citing an Illinois Supreme Court case that read a dent like a vote. But these seven Democrats were obviously a little worried what history might think of their politics. So they passed a little bit of the buck...
...scare the deer away before he can get a clear shot. What he doesn't know, the poor sap, is that the deer are not real. They're robodeer. Yes. Robotic deer. Who can compete with American ingenuity? Malette just had a funeral for a buck that took so many bullets in the line of duty --more than 100 in seven years--they called him Sluggo...