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...record of supplying arms to rogue governments, including Libya and Iraq. Already, 45 Senators and many Congressmen have petitioned President Bush to stop the sale. Argues Senator Jeff Bingaman, chairman of the U.S. Senate Armed Services technology subcommittee: "There isn't a country in the world that would permit the U.S. through a government-owned company to purchase its defense industry...
...paths through which death-row inmates get federal appeals courts to review -- and review again -- their convictions. That creates more pressure to ensure fair trials in the first place. Perhaps the most serious restriction yet may be handed down in a Virginia case, Wright v. West. That case could permit the justices to rule, in effect, that federal appeals judges should work mostly from the assumption that the courtroom rulings of state-level trial judges are correct. The result would be to limit sharply the kind of questions the federal courts can reopen on appeal...
Finally, he agreed to attend the environmental summit in Rio de Janeiro in mid-June, but only after the U.S. watered down the proposed global-warming convention that is to be signed there. And he approved his Interior Department's plan to override the Endangered Species Act to permit logging in ancient forests on some federal tracts that are home to the rare northern spotted owl. Bush still intends to campaign as the Environment President, one aide said, but "he understands that owls don't vote, and loggers...
Even in the absence of an important independent candidate, the vagaries of the Electoral College system permit the victory of a nominee who runs second in the popular vote. That occurred in 1888 and almost happened again in 1976. Because Perot's effort has focused attention on the process, Pryor has reintroduced a constitutional amendment providing for popular election of the President and Vice President. The House approved that proposal in 1969, but the Senate quashed it. Today's lawmakers, and the country at large, may pay a high price for that rejection next January...
...public baths, which consumed whole trunks at a time. They eventually built their homes to take full advantage of the sun's rays, and, being Romans, made laws to protect access to sunlight. Builders could not raise a structure that would cast shade on their neighbor without a special permit and a dispensation from the courts...