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...Supreme Judicial Court’s laudable ruling on Friday that the Massachusetts Legislature must either fund or repeal the commonwealth’s Clean Elections Law should finally force Beacon Hill lawmakers to implement a system that will allow some candidates access to public funds in statewide political races...
...What a stimulus package will do, though, is make it look like Washington is trying to help. That's why Bush was willing in Orlando Tuesday to signal a GOP retreat on a retroactive (to 1986) repeal of the corporate alternative minimum tax. It's why Senate Democrats - though they couldn't actually pass a bill - finally let go of their weeks-long fight to load up the package with antiterrorism spending and farm subsidies. After spending the better part of three months jostling for ideological goodies to present to constituents ahead of the 2002 elections, Congress may be finally...
...adultery is exempt from punishment. If the situation only suggests illicit sex, he gets a reduced sentence. The Jordanian royal family has made the rare move of condemning honor killings, but the government, fearful of offending conservatives, has not put its weight behind a proposal to repeal laws that grant leniency for killers. Jordan's Islamic Action Front, a powerful political party, has issued a fatwa, or religious ruling, saying the proposal would "destroy our Islamic, social and family values by stripping men of their humanity when they surprise their wives or female relatives committing adultery...
...adultery is exempt from punishment. If the situation only suggests illicit sex, he gets a reduced sentence. The Jordanian royal family has made the rare move of condemning honor killings, but the government, fearful of offending conservatives, has not put its weight behind a proposal to repeal laws that grant leniency for killers. Jordan's Islamic Action Front, a powerful political party, has issued a fatwa, or religious ruling, saying the proposal would "destroy our Islamic, social and family values by stripping men of their humanity when they surprise their wives or female relatives committing adultery...
...prevent the recession from deepening. The House passed an economic stimulus package two weeks ago, the centerpiece of which is a massive corporate tax break. The plan is worth nearly $100 billion, of which $70 billion is earmarked for corporations. The most controversial Republican proposal was a retroactive repeal of the corporate alternative minimum tax. Such a move would mean an enormous $25 billion government payout to a handful of blue-chip corporations for taxes they have paid over the past 15 years...