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...Supreme Court does decide to take up the marijuana issue, it could be the first of many judicial forays into the subject; judging from the small but growing number of states that permit seriously ill patients to grow and use marijuana under medical supervision (California voters took the lead in 1996) the issue isn' going away anytime soon. And this particular case could prompt the Justices to take an unfamiliar position: While this Court consistently demonstrates a penchant for decentralizing power from the federal government in favor of the individual states, federal drug laws remain sacred cows...
...Clinton eight years ago, before two terms alongside the President tarnished his shield. Lieberman's past and present denunciations of Clinton's "immoral" behavior help insulate Gore from the country's disgust with Clinton ethics. (The implicit argument: Lieberman said what Gore felt but as Vice President could not permit himself to say.) The fact that Lieberman is the first Jew on a major party ticket makes Gore's choice historic, courageous and potentially transformative, although it was hard not to feel that Gore congratulated himself a bit too much for helping to "tear down an old wall of division...
With the beginning of the Republican National Convention on Monday came the end of sanctioned protests and the threat of unrest. A poverty rights group, the Kensington Welfare Rights Union (KWRU), had for weeks been publicizing the March for Economic Human Rights, which, without a permit, brought the potential for mass arrests and police confrontation...
...start, committed to the decisive use of military force," writes Rice. "That President Clinton was surprised at Milosevic's tenacity is, well, surprising," she adds, in a thinly veiled slap-down of Albright's strategic abilities. "Also, there must be a political game plan that will permit the withdrawal of our forces - something that is still completely absent in Kosovo...
...months, protesters have braced themselves for conflict: KWRU leader Cheri Honkala was resolute in her plans to march, despite the denial of a permit, and being engulfed by the giant (and permitted) hoagie that invaded City Hall, and the city's determination to keep the Broad Street corridor clear for easy delegate access to the FU Center...