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...MADD anti-drunk-driving campaign doesn’t slow down for facts: En route to an accident-free utopia, who cares if our civil rights are run over. Many states already penalize drivers arrested for—not convicted of—drunk driving by revoking their license, and Los Angeles makes a tidy profit by seizing their cars as well. Washington, meanwhile, tells juries in DUI cases to “assume the truth of the prosecution’s...evidence” and make their decision “in a light most favorable to the prosecution...
...cars fleeing the city as soon as news spread that one of Lebanon's most prominent Christian politicians, Pierre Gemayel, had been assassinated in the capital. The killing of his uncle, President Bashir Gemayel, in 1982, marked the beginning of a particularly bloody chapter in Lebanon's 15-year Civil War. And the fear now spreading through the country is that this latest attack could usher in a similar period of heightened violence...
...actors aren't the only ones getting a rough ride in Blood Diamond, an action thriller about the illegal gem trade set during Sierra Leone's brutal civil war. The Warner Bros. film, due for release on Dec. 8, has the diamond industry concerned that moviegoers may walk out of cinemas with the idea that all diamonds are tainted. The gem folks, including...
RECOGNIZED. Gay Marriage, under the Civil Union Bill passed by South Africa's national assembly; in Cape Town. If the bill is ratified as expected by Parliament's upper house and President Thabo Mbeki, South Africa will become the first African nation to grant the same legal status to all marriages regardless of partners' sexual orientation. It was proposed after the Constitutional Court ruled last year that laws prohibiting gay marriage violated a guarantee of equal rights in the constitution...
...Civil Rights Project at Harvard, led by Gary Orfield, a professor of education and social policy at the Graduate School of Education, recently submitted a friend-of-the-court brief in the case summarizing research that shows that school desegregation has benefits for both white and minority students...