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INTERSTATE BANKING: In late July, House and Senate conferees reached agreement on HR3841, the interstate banking bill, which would allow bank holding companies to establish separately managed and capitalized banks and branches in more than one state. Its sponsors claim that the legislation will make banking more convenient for customers and foster a leaner, stabler and more profitable banking system. A Senate vote was delayed Aug. 9, when Texas Republican Phil Gramm lodged a point of order involving his state's banking laws. Final action is expected sometime after Labor...
Just when all the attention was on Syria and other peace refuseniks, Morocco became the second Arab country after Egypt to establish formal ties with Israel. The low-level diplomatic relations come after years of sketchy and often secret ties between the Jewish state and the North African country. Specifics of the arrangement sound a lot like the Israel-Jordan peace accord, with a strong focus on business interests. That's not surprising: Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said the breakthrough came in part because Morocco, like Jordan, wants to join the march toward regional economic cooperation...
...margin of one or two votes. Instead, nearly a fourth of all House Democrats balked. Most of them were rural lawmakers susceptible to the National Rifle Association, which opposed the bill's ban on 19 kinds of assault weapons and related models. Because the measure would also establish 50 new offenses punishable by the death penalty, which falls disproportionately on black defendants, 10 members of the Congressional Black Caucus voted against the bill...
...fingerprinting, as the process is called, is a complex, high-tech forensic test that can link a suspect to the commission of a crime -- or establish his innocence. While still controversial, use of the tests is gaining widespread acceptance in American courtrooms, including California's. That fact was hardly lost on either the Simpson defense or the prosecution. Attorney Shapiro insisted that his own experts as well as those hired by the * prosecution had the right to conduct the DNA tests. He requested that the prosecution turn over half the samples of blood that were collected by investigators after...
...just when you thought you had found an honest feminist academic -- perhaps the only one in existence -- Sommers reveals the same sloppiness that she criticizes in other feminists. She plays fast and loose with anonymous sources and uses ellipses in mid-quote. She goes to great lengths to establish that the "rule of thumb," which in the 19th century allowed a man to beat his wife with a rod no thicker than that finger, is a recent "feminist fiction." Yet her favorite feminist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, spoke out passionately against the right of a man to carry out this violence...