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...Evening is, to borrow an antique movie company slogan, "In The Tradition of Quality," which in olden times meant adaptations of high-toned popular fiction. No one ever got to say what was on their minds in those films, which often featured feverish and high-strung emoting by such live-wire nut jobs as Bette Davis or Joan Crawford who would haul a handgun out of her handbag and plug whoever was thwarting her hormonal needs. Here everyone suffers in hushed silence...
...Democrats want to 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...
Curfew has never been a popular term with teens. But lately the C-word has retailers and even law-enforcement officers looking for synonyms to describe the way many malls like the St. Louis Mills have started ejecting teens at 6 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays unless they're with a parent or guardian. "I hate to call it a curfew," Carl Wolf, chief of police in Hazelwood, Mo., says of the Mills' seven-month-old policy. "I like to call it a family night...
...simply attending, learning, and then deciding on a career. Instead, the Israeli higher-education system forces its students to choose a specialty before enrolling. And most who go straight to college do so through a program that ensures extended military service after graduation; quite a departure from popular post-graduation plans at Harvard, such as investment banking or graduate school...
...fighting extradition to Peru. Lima wants Fujimori to stand trial on charges including corruption and sanctioning death squads during his decade-long reign as president. The son of Japanese immigrants to Peru, Fujimori was an obscure agricultural engineer before he won the presidency in 1990, upsetting the popular novelist Mario Vargas Llosa. As president he was as loved for rescuing Peru's economy from near collapse and ending a violent Maoist insurgency as he was hated for trampling democracy and humans rights...