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...Cambridge ordinance allows domestic partners to receive access to confidential records as well as hospital and jail visitation rights. The partners of city employees also receive health insurance benefits, which are ordinarily extended only to parents and spouses under a 1955 Massachusetts law. The CAL and ACLJ have used this law in a mean-spirited effort to revoke the benefits that forty city employees have enjoyed for eight years...
...traditional diplomatic cover under which spies tend to work, which includes diplomatic immunity when caught. Thus, while American diplomat Cheri Leberknight, who was reportedly caught trying to obtain military secrets from a Russian citizen, was simply expelled, Captain Pope (if that really is his name) could face a lengthy jail term if convicted. The arrest also appears to be a calculated attempt by Russia?s new president, Vladimir Putin, to send out a political signal both at home and abroad. "This reeks of an effort to make political capital," says Meier. "It's illustrative of a new mood in official...
...resume Thursday, but there may be a limit to how long the government indulges the process before reverting to enforcing the law. "The federal government can simply come up with a court order that will force Lazaro Gonzalez to comply or otherwise face the prospect of going to jail," says TIME Miami bureau chief Tim Padgett. A Justice Department official has told the AP that failure to reach an agreement would result in the INS revoking Lazaro Gonzalez's custody and issuing a legally binding order to hand over Elian. All that would remain between Elian and his father, then...
...millions of apparatchiks who are masters at blocking, diverting, distorting, delaying and eventually destroying policies they do not like. Reforms aim to transform Russia, notes the country's greatest historian, Vasili Klyuchevsky, but they end up being transformed by Russia. Putin can cut Berezovsky down to size. He can jail oligarchs, scare governors and level Chechen villages. But actually transforming Russia will take more than just political will and cunning. It will also require the kind of good fortune and luck that no modern Russian leader has yet possessed...
...going to put a cop on the street late at night in an area of the city known to have a high crime rate, he has the right to protect himself without fearing that if he does react to a threat he will be put in jail. I sympathize with the Diallo family, but I also feel for the police officers, who put their lives on the line each day for the safety of all of us. ROBERT L. SYKES Fort Worth, Texas...