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...began treating them as a joke. Edwards' insistence that the eventual nominee must promise to carry on his fight for the underprivileged? Worthy of a snicker. Obama's gripe that presidential debates ought to focus on serious issues like Iraq and the economy, not trivia like flag lapels? Oh, lighten...
...modest $3 million budget reveals, however, a lingering uncertainty remains as to whether this new program will encourage additional students to join or merely lighten the load on those who are already interested in public interest law. If the latter turns out to be true, Kagan would be entirely justified in extending the budget and scope of the program. After all, the effort to encourage scholarship and participation in public interest and public sector law is both necessary and noble...
...return to France under Franco-Chadian judicial accords, several members of the operation have reportedly fallen out with their leaders of its illegal aspects. Lawyers and families of those support staffers had hoped the tribunal would consider evidence in their conviction of the subordinate roles they assumed, and lighten their sentences as accomplices rather - a distinction not made by the Chadian court...
...real drama was to come. After India reiterated its objection - and was essentially supported by the European Union - the lead American negotiator Paula Dobiansky turned to speak, and announced that the U.S. would not accept India's changes, which sought to lighten the expectations from developing countries. (The UN negotiating process requires total consensus.) Boos rained on the U.S. delegation from NGO observers and even the press gallery, breaking the last remaining appearance of diplomatic placidity...
...plane's weight. "With twice the battery capacity, we'd have a different plane," he says. And perhaps a more comfortable one: HB-SIA's pilot will sit in an unheated, unpressurized cockpit, in which he'll encounter -76ºF (-60ºC) temperatures at high altitude. In order to lighten the plane's load further, Boschberg has already gone on a diet...