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Proponents of term limits argued that installing fresh lawmakers every few years would make them more accountable. Legislators would see their jobs not as careers but as brief opportunities to make tough decisions and get things done. Opponents feared lobbyists would gain even more influence. None of the above happened. Lobbyists struggled as their long-term relationships with veteran pols became meaningless. Veteran staff members in the state capitals have had their power enhanced by guiding the rookies. In Maine, the number of bills has almost doubled in recent years, as rookies try to make a mark. But the number...
...then he discovered wrestling. "I realized I could take sighted people and slam them into the mat," he says. Grappling was a sport where feel and touch mattered more than sight: if he could sense where his opponent had his weight or how to shift his own body to gain better leverage, he could excel using his natural upper-body strength. As a high school senior he went all the way to the National Junior Freestyle Wrestling Championship in Iowa...
...that a field as culturally idiosyncratic as law is attracting so many foreign students to U.S. shores? There's a simple answer. The knowledge these students gain of American-style contracts, corporate accounting and securities law makes them valuable for negotiating international deals--either for companies or law firms in their homelands or for U.S. multinationals. With American firms representing clients who hold the purse strings in much of global commerce, they often get to draft the legal language that governs cross-border deals. That has made New York State law, in particular, a global gold standard, often invoked...
There are two ways to get a piece of the action at any of the big drug markets along the border: pay off--or kill off--anyone who stands in your way. But to gain exclusive control of the most lucrative gateway of all, says a veteran U.S. drug cop, a drug cartel has to pay and kill "beyond where any have ever gone before...
...Ichiro is also quick to utter such dandies as "chillin' like a villain," "whassup?" "thanks, dogg" and "no pain, no gain." When a reporter noted Ichiro's smooth feet, Ichiro nodded, smiled and said, "They sexy." He has picked up bits and pieces of English by listening to conversations, as well as television, movies and hip-hop. "I very much like hip-hop," he says in English, pronouncing hip as heep...