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...serious illnesses to grow, possess and use marijuana. It would also allow doctors to "prescribe" pot without fear of prosecution--or merely to recommend it, without committing themselves to a note pad. Though the change would not overrule federal or state laws that criminalize the recreational use of marijuana, Prop 215 would provide voter-approved legal backing for patients or doctors who were hauled into court. A poll shows that California voters favor it by about...
...adviser at the Daiwa Institute of Research. Competition from China and other fast-growing economies in Asia, as well as the globalization of trade, is making it much harder for the stodgy Japanese bureaucrats to maintain the country's advantage. In fact, Japan's mandarins have kept borrowing to prop up the economy with massive public-works projects, running the national debt up to nearly $4 trillion--just about as much as the GDP--by far the worst record in the developed world...
...into pro-Moscow Tajikistan, whose border with Afghanistan is already patrolled by Russian soldiers. Last week Boris Yeltsin sent his Prime Minister to a hurriedly arranged meeting of leaders from four former Soviet--and predominantly Muslim--republics in Central Asia. Security Chief Alexander Lebed announced that Russia should help prop up Rabbani, though it is hard to imagine a Russian return to Afghanistan...
...overall message being merchandised by the backers of Prop. 209 clearly has the potential to be attractive to a national audience. How, then, could the anti-affirmative-action cause fail to catch...
...Prop. 209 has engendered a small industry of polling on affirmative action. What the polls reveal is that the phrase is reasonably popular, but the word preferences is extremely unpopular. In real life, alas, there is no affirmative-action plan that doesn't involve preferences--that is, taking minority race or female gender into account as a plus factor. That's why affirmative action is another one of those issues on which it's more difficult than is immediately apparent to give the public what it wants. The debate around it really leads into a much larger and more profound...