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While the early doomsday predictions about Y2K appear to be wildly exaggerated, serious work remains to be done. "It was only one chemical valve being left open that caused the Bhopal disaster," says Joan Mulhern, legislative counsel for Public Citizen. "To the extent that these bills are telling industry not to be prepared, they're sending the wrong message...
KENNETH KAUNDA President of Zambia for 27 years, but court says he's not a citizen. Then someone tries to kill...
...mean getting tough on innocent people--even sending them to death row. With crime rates falling, Americans don't want to go soft on crime, but their sense of fairness is being sorely tested. Communities are beginning to ask how prosecutors and police can be effective while still respecting citizens' rights. Now it's time for law-enforcement officials to start taking the question seriously too. "The criminal-justice system works," says Jed Stone, who represented Rolando Cruz in an early trial, "only if the ordinary citizen believes in the integrity of the system...
...assigned there. If your group gets stuck in Minneapolis House, though, you had better like your blockmates. Still, as The Unofficial Guide to Life After Harvard will tell you, every House has its charms. Sophomore housing in Manhattan House is rumored to be awful, for example, but the senior (citizen) suites there are unbeatable...
...later turned himself in to the FBI, who offered to drop charges against him if he would "quietly" join the camps. Hirabayashi, a native-born American citizen, refused and took his case to court...