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Harvard tried to rein in the festivities, outlawing Commencement dancing in 1760 and cracking down on alcohol (especially the troublesome liquor-soaked "plumb cakes...
...regulations are debated, new fears, curiously similar to those that spurred the original statutes, have already surfaced. Won't consumers be handed the short end of the stick if media giants are given free rein over the marketplace? Not necessarily, says TIME editor-at-large Daniel Okrent. "A lot of our concerns may be based on antiquated ideas of local ownership - even in small markets, there is very little in terms of truly localized ownership, and there hasn't been for years. Publishing giants like Knight-Ridder and Tribune already own the bulk of nation's papers." In other words...
...absence of a peace deal with Syria - which Barak had hoped would rein in Hezbollah - Israel had hoped that its Lebanese allies would hold their own long enough to string a line of U.N. peacekeepers between the guerrillas and the Israeli border. But the instantaneous collapse of the South Lebanon Army has rendered that impossible, even in the unlikely event that the U.N. force, whose role in Lebanon has never been more than that of spectators, had been willing to insert itself between two armies who have reached no peace agreement. That leaves Israel's northernmost population centers vulnerable...
...that gender violence does not directly affect the national economy (thus VAWA is an invalid exercise of Congress lawmaking power under the Commerce Clause), and that Congress has no authority to use the 14th Amendment to regulate the behavior of individuals (because the 14th Amendment is designed to rein in states, not citizens). Both of these claims can be disproved with empirical evidence. Congress funded a four year fact-finding mission before passing VAWA, where it was determined that employers lose $3 billion a year to domestic violence as a result of workplace absenteeism. That figure is sufficiently high enough...
Gates' public relations offensive comes just as the gavel is about to crash down. Having found Microsoft guilty, Judge Jackson says he will move quickly--probably in the next three months--to impose remedies to rein it in. Some hawks in the Justice Department are expected to demand a "structural" remedy--breaking the company up into smaller and less dangerous pieces. Microsoft is likely to ask for "conduct" remedies--limits on its future behavior...