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...Professional gamblers—even those who gambled legally—had an outlaw mentality,” Alson writes. “They were people who had chosen to live their lives outside the socially accepted boundaries, to thumb their noses at the world. I admired them for that...
...major labels' systems include the online services Pressplay (owned by Vivendi Universal and Sony) and MusicNet (EMI, AOL Time Warner, Bertelsmann and the software firm RealNetworks). Initially hyped as the legitimate alternatives to the original outlaw Napster, these services have flopped with consumers--especially where CD burning is concerned. Pressplay charges $9.95 to let you burn 10 tracks a month--barely enough for one CD. MusicNet offers no burning capabilities, but EMI seems to have belatedly recognized the need, at least for fans of Sharon Riley and Faith Chorale. You can now burn up to 20 tracks from...
...referred to the Holocaust as a “detail” of history and seeks to outlaw the wearing of Muslim headscarves in schools. He would end legal immigration to France and expel illegal immigrants already in the country. In an editorial Monday, the publisher of the left-leaning French daily Le Monde referred to Le Pen as a “sinister demagogue” and wrote of the humiliation that citizens feel at the strong showing of a man who has often been accused of racism. Despite Le Pen’s radical positions, he captured...
...rightfully illegal. Virtual child pornography, on the other hand, is victimless and is merely, as Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote, “the visual depiction of an idea.” The Supreme Court has consistently held that it is not the government’s place to outlaw the expressions of thoughts which could only tangentially lead to a potential crime. Child pornography does not necessarily lead anyone to go and molest, abduct or rape just as a feigned murder, on screen or on stage, does not necessarily lead to violent outbursts. If the government were to outlaw...
...lift U.S. embargoes against Iran and Libya; nuclear-plant owners looking for government backing of a burial ground for reactor waste; and coal, refinery and utility executives out to ease pollution standards. In addition to writing the kind of huge soft-money checks that the reform bill would outlaw, energy firms lent about 20 of their officials and lobbyists to a larger fund-raising team organized by the Republican National Committee...