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...deterring the parent." Even the dissenting opinion acknowledged that "it would be folly -- and wrong -- to tolerate the creation of a segment of society made up of illiterate persons." But the decision split 5 to 4, and the ballot measure's proponents are hoping a new court will reopen the issue...
This week, two months after Quinn's luncheon interview, the Colombian government appears to be willing to reopen discussions of surrender. In a written statement to TIME, Samper said he had concluded that merely chasing after traffickers was not effective. "It is no good to have the cartel bosses in jail if they continue narcotrafficking," he wrote. "We know from experience that it is more important to dismantle the cartels than to incarcerate their leaders. Jailing them is necessary, but it is just not enough." An aide amplified that "the door is open on the surrender program again...
Even U.S. allies like France and Turkey that had helped fight the Gulf War were eager to welcome Iraq back into the fold. For months Baghdad had been negotiating deals with former trading partners, all of them hoping to reopen a hugely lucrative market. And Iraq was making progress on other fronts: Rolf Ekeus, the U.N. official charged with setting up the system to monitor weapons building inside Iraq, was about to report to the Security Council that Iraq was in provisional compliance with that significant U.N. requirement...
Discount bookseller Barillari Book Store mysteriously shut its doors last week, leaving a darkened, cluttered suite and no indication as to whether it will reopen...
...Senate Republicans, calling for 13 changes in the crime package that cleared the House on Aug. 21, forced a procedural vote to reopen the bill to further amendment. Supporters of the package, who needed 60 votes to defeat this procedural challenge, prevailed, 61 to 39 (recorded below), thus clearing the way for a final up-or-down vote on HR3355. The bill passed...