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...health clinic and yell lustily, does anyone hear them? Probably, but according to the plaintiffs in a case scheduled to go before the Supreme Court Wednesday, the eight-foot "bubble" required between Colorado protesters and clinic patients nevertheless infringes on the protesters' First Amendment rights. The constitutionality of buffer zones, which serve as barriers between clinic patients and possibly intimidating protesters, remains a point of heated contention between abortion-rights activists and antiabortion forces. "This is one of the major practical issues in the abortion debate," says TIME legal reporter Alain Sanders. "There is a constitutional right to abortion...
...this is proving a difficult balance to strike, even for the highest court in the land. Protesters claim that creating a buffer zone only serves to escalate the tone of demonstrations; keeping patients at a distance, they say, ensures they will have to scream to be heard. With this in mind, the Court ruled in 1997 that protesters could "counsel" patients on the sidewalk outside New York State clinics, as long as they did not come within 15 feet of the facilities' entrances. Adding to the Justices' difficulties is the current Court's disparate interests. "This Court has been...
...another. Confrontation with Israel has been the linchpin of Hafez el-Assad's authoritarian regime. Ending the state of war with Israel will deprive Assad of the very prop that legitimates his non-democratic rule. For Israel, peace with Syria means relinquishing the Golan Heights, a strategically vital buffer zone that saved the country during the 1973 War. As a former army chief-of-staff and as Israel's most decorated soldier, no one understands the value of the Golan more than Prime Minster Ehud Barak. Why then are Syria and Israel now so eager to cross the Rubicon...
...nation has become a kind of giant store; everything is for sale. Catalogs rise like dough in our mailboxes, offering "the best double-buffer shoe polisher"; "the only floating practice green," which transforms "any pool into a challenging golf shot"; a "baby elephant sprinkler topiary" that sprays water from its moss-covered trunk. Fame is for sale. New hair, necks and noses are for sale. Debt is for sale. Every inch of space is used for advertising. A good pass in a pro basketball game is identified as an "AT&T Great Connection." Politics is for sale; candidates buy public...
Terror, however, was the Khan's greatest weapon. Cities that resisted the Mongols were made into examples. Their populations were slaughtered indiscriminately, with survivors marched before the Mongol armies to buffer counterattacks: human shields nearly eight centuries before Saddam Hussein. Cities that surrendered without a fight were spared, their citizens merely enslaved...