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...away from the "lock-'em-up" policies they adopted in the past. Just last week the President told TIME that addiction "does require treatment, and I think we ought to look at all sentencing laws." But one day earlier, word leaked that Bush plans to nominate as his "drug czar" a man who has emphasized what he calls the "moral lesson" of law enforcement. John Walters, 49, who was chief deputy to former czar William Bennett in the first Bush Administration, believes nonviolent drug offenders should be diverted to treatment on first and second offenses. But he thinks only fear...
...Winners SCOTT EVERTZ Bush pick for AIDS czar becomes first openly gay Republican presidential appointee. Strange, John Ashcroft always seemed like such a cheerful guy FAT The best thing to happen to liposuction since Suzanne Somers. Human blubber found to contain stem cells useful in gene therapy THE BEATLES Their B&W debut film A Hard Day's Night is back in cinemas after 37 years. Could a Can't Stop the Music revival be very far behind...
...Jospin's concurrent bid to unseat conservative President Jacques Chirac. The key to Socialist victory will lie in proposing policies attentive to traditional social-protection priorities, but also palatable to job- and wealth-producing businesses. That's a balancing act Strauss-Kahn mastered in the past. As economic czar, Strauss-Kahn's reformist pragmatism won the confidence of both financial markets and French voters - making him a favorite to succeed Jospin as Prime Minister in the event of a win by the left...
...American Shipbuilding Association, however, doesn't like to call them subsidies, and is determined to get its dough. It has lined up support from coastal-state Republicans, from Majority Leader Trent Lott (from Mississippi) to Appropriations Committee czar Ted Stevens (from Alaska). Democrat John B. Breaux (from Louisiana) recently wrote Bush that the guarantees should in fact be tripled, to $100 million. Lott cosigned...
...smart kids at poor schools. A study released last week shows that kids in state-run schools who did well on the SAT are falling through the cracks of the current British testing system, which rewards those who have mastered specific subjects rather than general skills. Britain's education czar said he thinks SATs could be compulsory there in a few years...