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Those are high-profile enforcement efforts, and yet they're only two of the 10 cases that Spitzer is personally working on. His caseload isn't entirely about corporate wrongdoing. He's also challenging a federal attempt to pre-empt states from enforcing predatory-lending laws, and a few months ago won a ruling that forced the Bush Administration to reverse its rollback of pollution regulations that applied to big utilities. "The EPA [U.S. Environmental Protection Agency] cases are huge," he says. But Spitzer clearly sees Wall Street as his bailiwick; an avid and aggressive tennis player, he keeps...
KERRY: Let me emphasize: I'll pre-empt where necessary. We are always entitled to do that under the Charter of the U.N., which gives the right of self-defense of a nation. We've always had a doctrine of pre-emption contained in first strike throughout the cold war. So I understand that. It's the extension of it by the Bush Administration to remove a person they don't like that contravenes that...
After the game, which the fired-up Tigers won 12-0, Princeton decided to pre-empt Harvard, and cut off all relations with the Crimson. The rivalry resumed in 1935, after Yale had stepped in to mediate the discussions...
...bigger than regime change or even the elimination of dangerous weapons. The U.S. has launched a war unlike any it has fought in the past. This one is being waged not to defend against an enemy that has attacked the U.S. or its interests but to pre-empt the possibility that one day it might do so. The war has turned much of the world against America. Even in countries that have joined the "coalition of the willing," big majorities view it as the impetuous action of a superpower led by a bully. This divide threatens to emasculate a United...
...aware when he posted the treatise that the porn site he had visited had been busted. The Landslide trial in August 2001 was well publicized. Attorney General John Ashcroft himself announced it to the press. Townshend's Web account could be a self-serving effort to pre-empt suspicion. It could also turn out that his motives are more mixed than even he knows. If he was abused as a child, could he separate his revulsion at child pornography from his curiosity about it? Does Townshend saying "I have never downloaded" sound too much like Bill Clinton saying he never...