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...there's simply some bureaucratic sense of duty to record the minutiae of a condemned person's last day on earth. Or perhaps our culture has evolved this ritual of the ? la carte last meal to sugarcoat what remains a grim act of violence by the state to redress a previous wrong. After all, in some countries, a condemned man's last meal is whatever the prison kitchen happens to be serving that day, and death is by firing squad rather than the lethal injection ritual that gives the impression of a medical procedure rather than the more visible...
...Despite Idris's efforts to seek redress, however, the Clinton administration is sticking to its guns. "We stand by the decision to bomb this target in the Sudan," National Security Council spokesman P.J. Crowley told TIME.com Friday. "We stand by the information that we had at the time that Osama Bin Laden was seeking to acquire weapons of mass destruction, and we were able to link a compound used in the making of chemical weapons to the Al Shifa factory. There's nothing that we've found out since that changes our view that we made the right decision...
...agreement at Camp David in which the Palestinians renew their renunciation of violence would be as meaningless as the one in '93. As a former U.S. ambassador to Israel once said to me, What do you expect? Violence is the one means they have to redress their grievances...
...Coming on the heels of Thomas Penfield Jackson's finding against Microsoft and state court actions brought against gun manufacturers, the Florida verdict seems to shore up a trend in which the public is turning to the courts and local governments - rather than to federal politicians - to seek redress against powerful special interests. It also explains why the Washington lobbyists would want to spread their gospel beyond the Beltway. "The judge will always instruct the jury that they're only to base their judgment on the facts of this case and not accept any outside influence," says TIME legal analyst...
...Reilly's edict will be quickly mirrored by the 34 states with similar regulations, a situation that could force Congress and the gun manufacturers to the bargaining table. If gun makers find that they are tailoring their products to fit 35 different sets of regulations, they may seek federal redress. In turn, the feds will probably ask for some concessions in making guns safer to own and operate...