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...French fry in the Washington Metro; she claimed her Fourth Amendment and equal-protection rights had been violated, in part because, under the law, an adult would only have received a citation from the police. Roberts has also come down consistently, most recently in a dissent last week, in favor of police searches and seizures that were arguably conducted without probable cause. Still, last year he ordered the resentencing of a man who was being treated more or less as an equal partner in crime largely because he had been aware that his wife had stolen computers and other items...
...diversify its enormous portfolio of foreign-exchange reserves, which totaled some $660 billion at the end of the first quarter. Other Asian countries?also massively overweighted in dollars?should follow China's lead. The near-simultaneous announcement by Malaysia that it would abandon the ringgit's dollar peg in favor of a managed basket float confirms such a possibility. The Bank of Korea has also been itching to diversify out of dollars...
...molten belching of Mt. Yasur, the island's live volcano, and rarely visit places like this, self-sufficient communities connected to the world beyond their borders by little more than a web of narrow walking tracks. Money isn't seen here much, either. While few Tannese villagers still favor the nambas or grass skirts seen in Ianapus, most still live the kastom way, following traditional codes and hierarchies that have survived 160 years of contact with the outside world. They are lucky, for the land is usually so fertile that people have plenty of time to tend their culture...
...powers--including the U.S.--promised to "pursue negotiations in good faith" leading to a treaty on "general and complete disarmament." None of the nuclear signatories to the NPT meant what they said, and in only one of them--Britain--has there ever been a politically significant mass movement in favor of unilateral nuclear disarmament. (The young Tony Blair was once a supporter...
...successor to Justice O'Connor can go a long way toward fostering oneness in this country and bolstering the President's flagging popularity. Democrats and Republicans alike, except for extremists on both sides, admired her flexibility in the court's contentious decisions. Justice O'Connor eschewed rigidity in favor of nuance in each controversial case, and our country has been the better...