Word: legalism
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...author, Valeriy Pysarenko, a parliamentary deputy from Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's party. "It is destroying the Ukrainian nation on a moral level." Gambling has boomed across Russia and Ukraine since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991; before the ban, Ukraine boasted more than 100,000 legal gambling establishments, ranging from flashy casinos to dingy slot-machine halls. (See a video on the casino bet made by Bethlehem...
...which they normally would consider an evil empire, and urging it to help them restore Zelaya. Meanwhile, those in the halls of power grumble that the world is treating them unfairly. "Foreign governments misunderstand our situation," Congressman Juan Orlando tells TIME. "Once they learn that this was really a legal change of power, they will change their position." Yet it could be tough to persuade the international community of the legality of exiling a President at the barrel of a gun. (See pictures of Barack Obama's family tree...
...entirely possible for two jurists to arrive at an identical conclusion in a case, yet if one of them has considered more options and deliberated more over the issues, that jurist will have made the "wiser, more informed" decision. Sotomayor's background will automatically strengthen her consideration of legal issues - something that will escape some other jurist who has not had the experience of being a minority. Kerman Bharucha, webster...
...June 10 the Senate reached a bipartisan agreement to include a federal menu-labeling law as part of comprehensive health-care reform. Of course, who knows when that hornet's nest will come up for a vote. But in the meantime, health proponents are likening the Senate provision to legal requirements for a clothing label - i.e., what it's made of. "Isn't information that can help you avoid obesity and diabetes as important as knowing how to wash your blouse?" says Margot Wootan, director of nutrition policy for the nonpartisan Center for Science in the Public Interest...
...though, it was Zelaya's opponents who appear to have become unhinged. Technically - before Sunday, anyway - Honduras' Justices and generals could claim they held the legal high ground: Zelaya was, after all, blatantly defying a high-court ruling, as well as his legislature and attorney general. He was, they could argue, behaving like the populist caudillo his opponents warned he wanted to be. But their violent Sunday-morning response has made them look like the Latin oligarch lackeys of old - and has in fact lent credence to Zelaya's suggestion that they were indeed just defending a constitution fashioned exclusively...