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...same predicament. One Florida attorney told friends he had just drafted a new living will that included the words "I really, really, really mean this," and a Democratic political consultant says without joking that her new living will is going to include the words "Congress cannot overturn this by any legislation." Of course, having a living will doesn't guarantee it won't be contested. In a Bucks County, Pa., court this week, a daughter hopes to prevent her mother from having a feeding tube put into her Alzheimer's-afflicted father against the express wishes of his living will...
...full five months after jurors convicted former Harvard graduate student Alexander Pring-Wilson of voluntary manslaughter, a Superior Court judge may overturn the conviction in light of a recent Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) decision asserting that evidence of a victim’s violent past is admissible in court...
...guess is, Reid will win the judicial battle. He holds the ultimate nuclear weapon, the ability to bring the Senate to a halt using individual points of privilege. Frist will have to convince not only moderates but also a handful of Republican traditionalists that they should vote to overturn a Senate custom-the filibuster-that protected their rights in years past. There is danger to Reid's strategy, of course. The Democrats run the risk of seeming hopelessly recalcitrant, of using legislative gimmicks to achieve in Congress what they have resoundingly failed to accomplish at the ballot...
...where the line is," says John Ridley, a novelist and a TV and film writer who has written for cable and broadcast, "and that's what's scaring people." To better draw the line, industry sources tell TIME, broadcasters are considering a court test case--possibly even trying to overturn the 1978 ruling that defined the FCC's indecency standard, on the grounds of inconsistency. "There are two difficulties" that the FCC faces, says a broadcast executive. "One is that extreme [regulatory] positions are going to run into constitutional problems. The second is inconsistent and vague rulings are going...
Taken together, the finds overturn the idea that early mammals were tiny and timid. That had been eroding anyway with occasional discoveries of teeth and bone fragments that hinted at larger creatures. Now paleontologists can stop cooking up theories to explain why mammals were so little--that they had to be small to avoid being found, for example, or they couldn't grow larger because dinosaurs already occupied those ecological niches...