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...When Dukakis returned to the governorship in 1983, he faced pressure to raise the drinking age still further in an effort to curtail drunk driving...
...sense, petitioners' and the Attorney General's complaint is that it is just too easy to amend the California Constitution through the initiative process," wrote George for the 6-1 majority. "But it is not a proper function of this court to curtail that process; we are constitutionally bound to uphold it." Translation: Until Californians themselves change their system for amending the constitution, it will be the people - not the courts - who have final say on even the most fundamental rights enshrined in the constitution. (See pictures of the gay-rights movement, from Stonewall to Prop...
...obviously wouldn’t want JV baseball to receive as much attention as varsity, but I think there’s a difference between attention and disregard,” Coe-Odess said. The athletic department also announced plans to close the Malkin Athletic Center this summer, curtail facility projects and upkeep, increase energy conservation initiatives, and reduce team travel budgets in an effort to cut costs. —Staff writer Jake I. Fisher can be reached at jifisher@fas.harvard.edu...
Mexico isn't just dealing with the motherlode of the global swine-flu epidemic cases - 358 confirmed as of Friday. It's also wrestling with questions about what, if anything, it could have done to curtail the crisis more swiftly and effectively. On the one hand, Mexico's response has been largely effective: measures taken by President Felipe Calderon and his health officials, as well as Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard, appear to have stabilized the outbreak. Those measures included the closure of all but the most essential businesses and government services Friday through Tuesday, the nation's long Cinco...
There is an illogic here. If the incentives for piracy are economic, then a decreased likelihood of booty ought to curtail it. Yet no one seems to expect this to happen. Papers relay the boasts of pirates that they will exact "revenge" on Americans. How so? On whose behalf? Such solidarity is less typical of entrepreneurs than it is of terrorists and guerrillas. When Phillips' captors ran out of fuel, they radioed other pirate-held ships for help. There is talk of pirate dens on and near the Somali coasts: Harardhere, Eyl, Boosaaso. "Den" is a quaint, Peter...