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...effect. Different jurisdictions could experiment with their own approaches to complicated legal issues. They would be “laboratories of justice,” to borrow University of Wisconsin law professor Ann Althouse’s phrase—a phrase derived from Justice Louis Brandeis’ remark that decentralizing government could make the states into “laboratories of democracy.” And as these “laboratories” yield experimental results, their findings might help the Supreme Court justices formulate a more carefully-considered ruling if the once-tied cases ever returned...
...Border Thaw Harper wasted no time last week in establishing his government's approach to Canada's most important trade partner and political ally--by sounding like a Liberal Party nationalist. He startled reporters at his first press conference by declaring he took exception to a remark made earlier in the week by U.S. Ambassador David Wilkins, who questioned Canada's claim to sovereignty over Arctic waters. "It is the Canadian people we get our mandate from, not the ambassador from the United States," Harper snapped, noting his government has "significant plans" for asserting its Arctic rights...
...most poignant moment of Mary Beth Carroll's CNN interview was when she addressed her daughter's kidnappers in Iraq, saying, "Jill's welfare depends upon you." To those not familiar with the Middle East, that might seem nothing more than as a passing remark, but I'll bet that phrase makes the headlines in the Arab media. The appeal to the Iraqi and Arab sense of responsibility for one's guest is bound to resonate in the region...
...people who know Bush well, the remark said it all about the longtime chill between the two pols?a distance that is only sure to grow with former lobbyist Jack Abramoff's guilty plea. Both camps describe the two conservative Texan's relationship as professional?an alliance, not a friendship. "DeLay admires Bush's leadership but still thinks of himself as the strongest conservative on the block," a DeLay friend says. "They perceive DeLay as a bull in a china shop. They appreciate him as their protector and retriever." Like many of his colleagues on Capitol Hill, DeLay suffers under...
...Although no one answered her question, she appeared to know the answer. "When she made that remark, she was very upset," he says. "The flight attendant was well-trained. She just talked to her to keep her from going totally hysterical...