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Back in Georgia, Representative Mike Snow has introduced a bill to require all crematories to be licensed. The irony is acute, since in 1992, Snow had introduced an amendment to exempt the Marsh place from inspection for two years--at Ray Marsh's request. When the coroner complained in 1995 that Marsh wasn't licensed, Marsh's lawyers convinced the state attorney general that Marsh was exempt. The Marsh place only dealt with funeral homes and thus did not fit the state's definition of a crematory as a facility open to the public...
Then the recession hit. Sopko says his orders plummeted 60% and he has had to lay off a third of his 140 employees. Today, he says, his shop is operating at break-even. Sopko has applied for an exemption from whatever tariffs or quotas Bush may impose, but he's not confident of winning it. More than 1,000 other businesses have applied for exemptions for highly specialized steel products not made in the U.S. The Administration hasn't yet determined the standard under which it might grant those requests, and the steel industry will have a say. Says Bethlehem...
Copyrights are intended to protect the author and publisher from rival commercial houses seeking to copy, and distribute for profit, work that properly belongs to another person. Fair use was meant to exempt readers from having to contact and pay the publisher for personal use copyrighted material, even when that use entails making a small number of non-commercial personal copies...
...City Council voted unanimously Monday night to create just such a subcommittee. The new body, to be made of up of five city councillors and chaired by Councillor David P. Maher, will primarily discuss long-range planning, including development issues and how universities compensate the city for their tax-exempt status...
Treating these detainees in the same manner as prisoners of war would not exempt them from being prosecuted for crimes committed outside the laws of war. Any Taliban fighters—who are even more clearly members of an organized fighting force—connected to atrocities perpetrated against the Afghani people or elsewhere should be tried for crimes against humanity by an international tribunal. Any al Qaeda prisoners—as well as al Qaeda members arrested anywhere in the world—who are connected to terrorist actions should be tried in civilian courts for their actions...