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...since Bush v. Gore have so many constitutional lawyers jumped on a case. First Amendment liberal Floyd Abrams has joined Starr. McCain and Feingold are assembling their own impressive team to help U.S. Solicitor General Ted Olson defend the law. Sources say former Clinton Solicitor General Seth Waxman will lead lawyers from Common Cause, Democracy 21 and other reform groups...
...minutes were gone," says Fayez. He had no insurance, and Israel did not compensate him. "I'm not against struggling and building the Palestinian state," he says. "But I have my doubts about the benefits of shooting at Israeli targets when we are not in a position to defend ourselves...
...Sharon had opposed the Oslo peace process all along, precisely because he believed the territories captured in the 1967 war are essential to Israel's ability to defend itself - and Oslo was supposed to negotiate turning most of the West Bank and Gaza into a Palestinian state. But many of Israel's leading politicians and generals fear that holding onto those territories may represent an even greater threat to Israel's security. Sharon looks set to commit tens of thousands of troops to "pacify" the 3 million Palestinians who live in the West Bank and Gaza, and who are overwhelmingly...
...most articulate proponents of loosening up Italy's notoriously tight labor market. He had spearheaded the government's efforts to phase out Article 18, a measure that allows unjustly fired workers to get their jobs back rather than settle for financial damages. Labor leaders fiercely defend Article 18, which they say protects workers against arbitrary firings. The Red Brigades has a long history of striking against would-be labor-market reformers. Della Porta says the terror group believes that modernizers like Biagi represent "the left that has betrayed the working class." After the attack, the unions toned down their rhetoric...
...described him as "the only living person not head of a nation, whose voice is heard around the world the moment it drops a remark." It's a measure of this balanced book that Gilmour puts Kipling firmly in the context of his time but does not attempt to defend the indefensible. As he stresses, Kipling - ever the realist - touched real chords in the British psyche during the first 40 years of his life. Later he got many important things right, especially his view of the Nazis as they came to power in Germany. But basically he failed to change...