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Over the summer, Congress passed and the President signed a new homeland-security law called "Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act." Finally, homeland security has been rationalized, we were told. The new law would fix the way money gets distributed so that the states at a greater risk of...
Bin Laden's statement came on the same day that Pakistan's Election Commission announced the date for Pakistan's parliament to elect a new President - a vote in which Musharraf plans to seek a second term. But, for the past week, the Supreme Court has been considering several legal...
The most contentious case is over Article 63 of the constitution, requiring that candidates for elected office, among other things, must have been retired from the military for at least two years, so as to prevent the power and influence of the military being brought to bear on the democratic...
While tourists might take pleasure in commemorating their brush with celebrity, airport officials are not thrilled. "I understand the curiosity, but we're certainly not looking for any kind of special attention to the bathroom as a tourist attraction," says Pat Hogan, public affairs director for the Metropolitan Airports Commission...
The remedies proposed by the SVP have, of course, been fiercely rejected by all other political parties, human rights groups, and the government. They see the SVP's anti-foreigner rhetoric as demagoguery designed to stampede the electorate. "We are shocked at how foreigners are used to heat up the...