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...homes and infrastructure can be repaired; it will ban hard-core pornography and carry out health checks on all children. The rigid permit system that restricts the entry of outsiders such as journalists into communities will be largely scrapped, and Howard wants traditional Aboriginal law removed as a mitigating factor in criminal sentencing. He agrees they're drastic measures: "It is interventionist, it does push aside the role of the Territory to some degree-I accept that," he said on June 21. "But what matters more, the constitutional niceties or the care and protection of young children...
...wasn't until the Democrats took over Congress last fall that the race factor in Washington really got interesting. After all, if you believed the Republican campaign rhetoric, the most powerful committees in the House were going to be headed by African Americans who were either radical or incompetent...
...than Mickelson's U.S. Open choke on the 18th hole at Winged Foot? "I love watching the Masters for its tradition, and the British Open for its history," says Golf Channel analyst and former pro player Brandel Chamblee. "But I really love watching the U.S. Open for the vomit factor: seeing guys look like they're about to throw up." That's pretty much what Oakmont is all about...
...Joseph S. Nye Jr., the former dean of the Kennedy School, says that Keohane played a significant role in the search, and her support was a major factor in President-elect Drew G. Faust’s selection...
...enforcement. That's why people get arrested for assault but not for jaywalking. It's time to think seriously about exactly where the act of illegal immigration lies in the spectrum of criminality. Consider the complicity of U.S. employers ranging from multinational corporations to suburbanites looking for gardeners. Factor in the mixed signals that lax law enforcement sent to would-be immigrants throughout the '80s and '90s, and the crime should rank as a misdemeanor, not a felony. Even if we step up border enforcement in the future - as we should - it is true that for a long time, crossing...