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...Obama has acknowledged that he is not the first president to try to reform health care, but he plans to be the last. This will not be the case. Regardless of what Obama is able to achieve today, the U.S. will undergo more health-care reform in the future, when evolving circumstances will require policies that we cannot predict now. As a result, there must be reform in the future in order to keep up with changes in how we receive health care. You cannot say the same for climate-change policy. If we fail to act now, there...
...case you were fortunate enough to miss it this week, Flyby's got the skinny on this lovely piece of spam that's been making the rounds, courtesy of some of your most random friends. Remember that guy who e-mailed you once for a section assignment last fall? He apparently wants you to see a photo...
...International Criminal Court in The Hague if each party does not launch private investigations into their own actions within the next six months. But the U.N. should be less naive in its threats—as the United States sits on the Security Council, which decides whether certain cases will be brought to the world court, it would strongly hesitate to consent to a case against Israel. This case, then, is not something that would likely ever be brought to international trial, and threatening such grave consequences is extremely counterproductive when the issues at hand deserve much more rationality...
...question was set to go to trial in Federal District Court last week, but the matter was delayed at the last moment while the two sides explored a settlement. The city's law department declined to comment on the case...
Elledge and the city police department have consistently refused to comment on the case. But Jim Pasco, executive director of the Fraternal Order of Police, says police officers are not out to systematically punish people who mouth off. "There is certainly no substitute for good judgment on the street," says Pasco, whose organization represents officers nationwide, including Pittsburgh, "and if in the officer's judgment, maintenance of order is going to be preserved by giving a citation or making an arrest, then the officer is going to use his judgment to make that arrest or issue that citation." (See pictures...