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...surprised some Republicans by introducing ARKids First, and a year later he decided that all the state's proceeds from the tobacco industry lawsuit settlement should go to health education, antismoking campaigns and--get this--Medicaid expansion. Partly because of opposition from his own party, Huckabee's tobacco plan got bottled up in the Arkansas house. So he put it before voters, and the referendum passed, 64% to 36%, in 2000. Huckabee also helped persuade voters to increase their own gas taxes to fund long-overdue highway repairs in 1999. The previous Governor, Jim Guy Tucker, Clinton's Democratic successor...
...from his face. It was over: after two years overseas, the former New York City hedge-fund operator had been located. Badian slammed the door of his posh Vienna, Austria, apartment in the heart of the city's embassy quarter--but not before being officially served with a civil lawsuit linking him to the beleaguered U.S. commodities firm Refco and tying him and Refco to a type of fraud that some argue has destroyed thousands of companies and bilked investors out of billions of dollars...
Massachusetts’s highest court heard The Crimson’s appeal yesterday in its two-year lawsuit to force Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) to release more detailed crime reports...
Google resumed its controversial book-scanning initiative on Tuesday, despite the objections of several publishers and two pending copyright-infringement lawsuits. The initiative, “Google Print,” is a multi-year project to digitalize the contents of five of the world’s largest research libraries, including Harvard’s. Stanford, the University of Michigan, Oxford, and the New York Public Library have also partnered with Google on the effort. In August, Google temporarily halted the scanning of works that are under copyright protection but said that scanning would resume...
Arguing that new state curriculum guidelines on the Armenian genocide deprive students of the complete historical picture, two local teachers and a high school student have signed on as plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit against the Massachusetts Department of Education.The historical account in question is a two-year span during World War I in which anywhere from 600,000 to 1.5 million Armenians were deported by the Turkish government and killed or allowed to die. While these events are generally accepted as historical fact, the particulars are controversial.The Turkish government has argued that the deaths were a result of ethnic...