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...Meiwes is charged with murder for sexual satisfaction and disturbing the peace of the dead. Showdown Time? ITALY Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government approved a media-reform law that critics say is tailor-made for the television mogul's business interests. The latest piece of controversial legislation would overturn a court decision forcing one of Berlusconi's three main TV channels to go to satellite, but could be rejected by President of the Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi as unconstitutional. Antonio Maccanico, a close Ciampi adviser and former Communications Minister, told TIME that Ciampi was debating whether to sign...
...acknowledges that the campaign is just an initial step in an incremental agenda culminating in the overturn of Roe. “[Abortion] is only going to be illegal when people understand that it hurts women and ends the life of the child,” says Tapia. “It’s a moot point to argue for it being illegal until you show that it’s wrong.” The strategy, it seems, is to rope in moderates with liberal language that will make them start listening, and begin to form an anti...
...President Simon Muzenda, others believe Mugabe's crackdown is a negotiating ploy meant to strengthen his hand for transition talks with the MDC. The aging President may yet be looking for a way out. [an error occurred while processing this directive]Last week the MDC took its case to overturn the 2002 presidential election result to the high court in Harare. The party argued that Mugabe's victory is invalid because the government packed the electoral commission with its supporters, reopened voter registration without telling the MDC and limited the number of polling stations in cities, where the opposition...
...G.O.P.'s congressional fund-raising committees, which buys it access on the Hill. Despite opposition from evangelical Christians, who make up a vastly bigger part of Bush's base than gays do, the White House has named three openly gay officials. Bush has refused to overturn Bill Clinton's Executive Orders banning anti-gay discrimination in the Federal Government. How much credit R.U.C. deserves for these developments isn't clear--those with real access to the White House take care not to discuss it. But even gay Democrats in Washington say having an openly gay conduit to the Oval Office...
...Mississippi conservative voted against a Medicare prescription-drug bill the President had urged Republican Senators to support. Earlier this month he publicly warned Bush that he had to give Americans more details on postwar-Iraq plans. And last week he joined Democratic Senator Byron Dorgan in a resolution to overturn another White House--backed measure, the Federal Communications Commission's decision to relax media-ownership caps...