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...this as a first step toward universal vegetarianism? No, I don't really. I don't. We're a pluralistic society and we have pluralism when it comes to food as well. But there must be a minimum set of standards that prevent egregious cruelty from being meted out on animals raised for meat...
...Amendment rights. Judy Schwartua, a Minneapolis training and communications director for elections, said the ruling applied only to the media organizations that sued the state and the precincts listed in the ruling. But Susan Buckley, who represented the media organizations, disagreed. "The ruling is pretty clear. The state cannot prevent exit polling. That's what [the judge] ruled...
...state is looking to top the nation in voter turnout again this year, and it argued in the case that the law allowed election officials to prevent disruptions and electioneering at the polls. "If not hostility there's certainly a concern that the presence of the news media will infringe on the voting process," said Jane Kirtley, a media law professor at the University of Minnesota. - By Justin Horwath / Minneapolis...
...Helms would be horrified at the idea of his old seat unleashing a Democratic tide across all of Washington, the hard-knuckle campaigner who died last July at the age of 86 might approve of Dole's latest effort to prevent it from happening. In an ad buy across North Carolina, Dole unveiled Wednesday a thirty-second spot that accuses Hagan of accepting money from the "Godless Americans" PAC. The video finishes with a picture of Hagan and a voice clip of a woman who sounds like her (but is not) saying "There...
...that fueled the Russian state's recent revival appears unable to offer a solution to the crisis. Russian foreign-currency reserves that stood at almost $600 billion last August have shrunk to $485 billion as the state has been forced to spend to bail out state-run banks and prevent abrupt devaluation of the weakening ruble. There is no telling if the policy has worked, though, and there's worse to come: major state-run corporations such as Gazprom and Rosneft, as well as Russia's regional governments, have accumulated debts amounting to some $448 billion that...