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...same success for the entire country, but Gore is pointing to a much grimmer Texas. On health care, which Bush largely ignored during his five years in office, Gore notes that the ranks of uninsured poor have increased during the Governor's tenure and that Bush tried to restrict the number of children covered by government-funded health insurance. In a befuddling reversal for a campaign so conditioned to cheering Bush's Texas record, a spokesman last week tried to deflect attacks on that record by saying the campaign would be focusing on the future and not the past...
Reached at Dartmouth last night, some students said they fear the administrative action will leave their social life high and dry and restrict student freedoms...
Such a loose standard is both dangerous and misleading. It is dangerous because it opens the door for states to restrict almost any kind of speech on flimsy theories of cause and effect. Nude dancing at a strip bar and nude dancing at the ballet are two entirely different kinds of speech. Yet the city's ordinance allows the government to ban both in the name of fighting crime. The court's decision, wrote Justice David H. Souter '61, ignores that evidence of negative effects "must be a demonstrated fact, not speculative supposition...
MicroStrategy's pain extended beyond its stock-market valuation. The firm canceled a planned $1 billion new-stock offering. That will at least temporarily restrict the company's access to capital, not to mention Saylor's. He had planned to sell shares worth hundreds of millions as part of the offering. Although the stock recovered more than a third of its losses as of last Friday's close, he's now down to his last $5 billion...
...attract unwanted police attention. Other parents have given an emphatic thumbs-down to cell phones. Why? A police officer might mistake it for a weapon in the hands of a young African-American male, just as the cops say they mistook Diallo's wallet for a gun. Other parents restrict their kids' clothing. New York City police detective Clifton Hollingsworth won't let his sons wear hip street fashions. No backward baseball caps or pants drooping down below their waist, because such clothing can send the wrong signals to police. "It's important that families do as much as they...