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...Returning power to the states meant sticking it to Congress, which Rehnquist was able to do after another antifederal conservative, Clarence Thomas, joined the court in 1991. In a seminal 1995 decision, the Chief Justice wrote for the majority that Congress had no right to outlaw firearm possession near schools, since law enforcement and education were state matters. Five years later, the court also struck down part of the Violence Against Women Act; Rehnquist wrote in the decision that "we can think of no better example of the police power, which the Founders denied the National Government and reposed...
...animation with Otomo's film version of his manga series--and, presto, haute anime proclaimed itself to the world. This psychedelic eye chart is set in 2019, the same year as Blade Runner, and paints its Neo-Tokyo with even denser splashes of noir on neon. The mix of outlaw attitude and brain-breaking speculation may convince you that the Wachowskis were channeling Akira when they wrote The Matrix. The special-edition DVD restores the original film in all its gaudio-visual splendor...
What transpires in No Country is very similar to the events in many thrillers--there are machine pistols and motels and tracking devices, shoot-outs and getaways and clever displays of hard-boiled outlaw tradecraft--but when they're expertly staged and pitilessly lighted by McCarthy, they somehow mean more than in an ordinary thriller. No Country is suffused with Modernist melancholy, a sense that our civilization is dying and all we have ahead of us are endless salt flats of moral and cultural aridity. Sheriff Bell sees people like Chigurh as avatars of things to come. "I aint sure...
...Francisco municipal authorities agreed on a set of laws meant to codify the city's piquant urban character. The Downtown Plan, a radical and ambitious zoning scheme, will protect dozens of fine older buildings from demolition, severely restrict the amount and bulk of new highrise construction and virtually outlaw the modernist office block...
Mulroney candidly acknowledges his problems. Recalling the string of scandals that beset him last September, he said recently, "If I had my druthers, I'd outlaw Septembers in the future." But the Prime Minister, who noted in a year-end interview that more than 400,000 new jobs have been created in Canada since he took office, has also complained that many of his government's accomplishments have been ignored. "It's much easier for the media to talk about tainted tuna than it is about job creation," he said...