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...already been approved by the state and relatively free of red tape. The line is set to open by 2015, the environmental-impact assessment has already been done, and the state owns more than 90% of the route's right of way. That should reduce the property struggles and legal challenges that have slowed other new rail projects. "Florida is relatively cheap compared to other projects," says Todorovich. "This is the sort of project they can use to build support on a national basis. You need a success...
...bird feeders that can be easily found in many backyards, Fastman said. Finding no documented regulations against having chickens and ducks as pets in a backyard when they researched the city ordinances, the trio proceeded to build the coop and keep the birds by what they understood to be legal means...
...earlier version of the Jan. 29 news article "Birds in a Cambridge Yard Stir Neighborhood Trouble" did not clearly state whether the Fastmans and Brasher began their project with knowledge of its legality. In fact, the trio acquired their chickens and ducks with the understanding that such a move was legal in Cambridge...
...bringing this case, legal powerhouses David Boies and Ted Olson - who most famously opposed each other in the Supreme Court over the 2000 presidential election - have managed to make mainstream the notion of gay marriage in a way that not even years of campaigning by gay-rights groups had been able to. That began to be clear almost immediately after the trial began early this month, as Republican stalwarts, from Cindy McCain to Herbert Hoover's granddaughter, began to speak out in favor of gay marriage. "This trial, and Ted's and David's profiles as nationally prominent, mainstream opinion...
...other words, the legal bout of the de Villepin-Sarkozy slug-fest may be over, but the lack of a knock-out for either combatant means both will take their fight back to the cage-match brawling of politics...