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During these speeches, any member of the house is permitted to object or question the speaker on any point if the speaker yields. It is expected that the reintroduction of heckling will provide an even more spirited debate than in the past and that it will provide ample opportunity for repartee...
...first line of prosecution. Existing hate-crimes statutes, as well as the proposed legislation, explicitly state the conditions under which federal prosecution may proceed. Namely, the federal government may only prosecute a crime when the state cannot or will not exercise jurisdiction, the state requests or does not object to federal prosecution or the state prosecutes but does not receive an outcome that sufficiently combats the bias-motivation. This language is intended to allay concerns about states' rights in the criminal justice process...
...Winners DRYOCOCELUS AUSTRALIS The real survivor in the outback. Stick insect thought extinct shows up alive and well off Aussie coast NEAR-SHOEMAKER U.S. spacecraft is first man-made object to land on an asteroid? other than Bruce Willis STEVEN SODERBERGH Sorry Spielberg. Filmmaker faces off against himself for the Best Director Oscar...
...bank's collection was formed in secrecy and has never been fully exhibited. But art historians who helped build it say it included two other Malevich paintings, realist portraits dating from the artist's last years, and a drawing called The Reapers. They say the bank also acquired an object resembling an Architecton, Malevich's name for his skyscraper-like sculptures. If authentic, the Architecton would be significant-none has ever been offered on the market. Culture Ministry officials refuse to discuss the whereabouts of these other works...
...Cardinal Mahony of Los Angeles, for lobbying for Clinton's pardon of a Democratic donor's drug-dealer son; Morgan Stanley chairman Philip J. Purcell, for paying six figures to hear the inaugural address of Clinton's ex-presidency. (Clinton has told friends that Purcell didn't seem to object to the standing ovation Clinton got, or the fact that he shook hands with Morgan Stanley clients for two hours afterward.) UBS Warburg may not be the last to rescind its speaking invitation. Even Yale University, which has invited Clinton and current and former Presidents Bush to help commemorate...