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Adding new ammunition to the debate over gun control, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments March 2 in McDonald v. Chicago, a case challenging the constitutionality of Chicago's handgun ban. If, as is expected, the Justices rule in favor of 76-year-old Otis McDonald--who says he fears for his safety without a gun--they could lay the groundwork for gun-control laws to be loosened across the country. Firearms account for about 30,000 deaths each year in the U.S. The city of Chicago maintains that its 28-year-old handgun ban saves hundreds of lives...
...already recognizing same-sex civil unions, the region has become a major front in the gay-marriage battle. The law, passed last year by a solid majority, also grants same-sex couples the right to adopt children. Calderón called the move unconstitutional and vowed to challenge it in court...
...same time on the first court, junior Alexei Chijoff-Evans picked up a three-set victory for Harvard, 6-4, 4-6, 6-2. The win at the No. 1 spot meant the match was tied at three apiece...
...protesters comprise mainly rural poor who seek the return of Thaksin Shinawatra, a former Prime Minister ousted in a 2006 military coup. Thaksin has been living in self-imposed exile rather than serve a two-year prison sentence on a corruption conviction. In late February, the Supreme Court confiscated $1.5 billion of his assets, ruling that he had gained them through abuse of power while Prime Minister...
...Domoslawski's book has been widely condemned in Poland, in part because of Kapuscinski's nearly godlike status in the country but also because Kapuscinski had been Domoslawski's mentor and close friend. Kapuscinski's widow Alicja, who unsuccessfully sought a court order to block the publication of the book, likened Domoslawski's work to patricide. "He wanted to precipitate the removal from the pedestal of the one who promoted him, valued him, encouraged him and recommended him," she said in an interview with the newspaper Polska the Times. "Such things should be published several dozen years after the death...