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Cambridge Electric officials have determined that a short circuit in an underground cable near Peabody Terrace caused the fire and explosion that forced residents to evacuate for more than eight hours on Sunday...
...think charisma can go a long way," said Flair, who is part of the World Championship Wrestling circuit...
Additionally, I want to take issue with the staff's presentation of jurisprudential issues. I agree with their criticism of the recent judicial activism of conservative justices, especially on issues of the ill-defined 11th Amendment guarantee of "sovereign immunity." The Fourth Circuit's own Chief Harvey Wilkinson, concurring in the case at hand, proudly declared the recent cases to be a new wave of "justified," federalism-based judicial activism...
After Miami Circuit Judge Rosa Rodriguez granted Lazaro temporary custody of Elian last week, a typical Miami-style conflict-of-interest controversy erupted. It was discovered that Armando Gutierrez, publicist for the drive to keep Elian in the U.S., was a paid media consultant in Rodriguez's 1998 election campaign--and that the judge is under state investigation for allegedly violating campaign-finance rules. As the judge argued that Elian should be reared in a freer society than Cuba, it was hard not to wonder last week whether Miami is the ideal American city in which to teach...
...modifications of the system, the Supreme Court appears to have approved at least some efforts at change. In a ruling Monday, the high court allowed the state of Missouri to maintain its six-year-old $1,000 cap on contributions to candidates in state races. Last year, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals found the limit unconstitutionally limited free speech because it hampered the ability of candidates to raise funds to promote their candidacies. It based its argument, in part, on the notion that the $1,000 cap derived from a limit imposed by Congress for federal races...