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Number of Palestinian government employees who have received only partial pay since March 2006, when Israel began freezing Palestinian funds in protest against Hamas...
...people are in custody in the Glasgow incident, both of whom jumped out of the burning jeep. One is in critical condition, suffering from severe burns. (He apparently had a "suspect" device on his body, the discovery of which then required a partial evacuation of the hospital where he had been taken to.) Britain remains on highest alert, with security forces vigilant for more potential attacks...
...pick a fight with the court in the short term, in hopes of prompting a leftward shift, they'll have to be careful to choose issues in which they can count on support from a significant majority of the country. Rather than try to repeal the popular ban on partial-birth abortion--which many Democratic voters support--they might try instead to protect gender equality by overturning the court's narrow interpretation of the federal law prohibiting pay discrimination...
...they also have to mobilize it effectively. During a handful of periods in American history--like the New Deal--congressional opposition to the court was so intense that the court did an about-face. More frequently, though, opposition has been more diffuse, leading the court to beat only a partial retreat or ignore its critics. During the 1960s, for example, Congress complained about the Warren Court's school prayer and apportionment decisions, but there was no public outcry, and the court stood its ground...
Malloch Brown's views have not mellowed. Last month, he gave a speech in London raising his concerns that Western interventionism had rebounded on humanitarian organizations which were now being seen as partial and political. Said he, "I have watched the work... get steadily more dangerous as it is seen as serving Western interests rather than universal values...