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...gladiator boot camp where the greatest thrill (aside from survival) is the chance to compete in the Coliseum. And that is exactly where Maximus, with thoughts of revenge dancing in his mind, is headed after he proves his worth on what essentially amounts to the minor league gladiator circuit...

Author: By William Gienapp, | Title: Antiquity Roadshow | 5/5/2000 | See Source »

...Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey decision, the Supreme Court ruled that a state may not create an "undue burden" for any woman making "the decision to terminate her pregnancy before viability." In striking down the Nebraska statute law last year, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, in St. Louis, ruled that the statute's language was broad enough to encompass the D&E procedure, imposing an "undue burden" on the woman seeking an abortion. Most of the lower federal courts that have addressed partial-birth abortion bans have ruled based on the "undue burden" standard. Because...

Author: By Zachary R. Heineman, | Title: Court Must Reaffirm Choice | 5/2/2000 | See Source »

...most days you can barely walk two feet in the yard without running into some kind of protest is proof enough that the Harvard student body as a whole is hardly apathetic. If they can't drum up support here, prospects are looking bleak for the talk-show circuit...

Author: By Allison A. Melia, | Title: Monkeys Roam, Even in the Yard | 5/1/2000 | See Source »

...rights to sue Juan Miguel for custody later or go back to court for damages. For their part, Justice lawyers would go to court and seek a departure control order for Elian so that he could not be taken out of the U.S., in accordance with the 11th circuit order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Elian Grab | 5/1/2000 | See Source »

...Naturalization Service has held that only the boy's father has the legal right to speak for him and that a boy his age cannot be expected to comprehend the meaning of an asylum request. But in a unanimous ruling, the three judges of the Atlanta-based 11th Circuit went out of their way to criticize the INS for not taking into consideration Elian's stated wish to stay in the U.S. The judges noted that when Congress wrote the 1980 immigration law, it specified that "any alien...may apply for asylum." Since Congress did not specifically exclude children from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Can a Kid Decide? | 5/1/2000 | See Source »

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