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Discussing national drug reform policy before a standing-room-only crowd in Sever Hall on Saturday, Johnson said drugs like marijuana should be treated just like tobacco or alcohol...
This, I imagine, is not the Arab Street of today. Demonstrators are packing Cairo University to demand that Egypt and Jordan sever their diplomatic ties to Israel. Already the president of Egypt has acquiesced by downgrading its diplomatic channels, but continues to turn back protesters from the Israeli Embassy with water cannons and tear gas. This is the atmosphere in which the Arab League will anxiously convene on Wednesday...
Measured by the sheer number of doohickeys on board, these tools are about equal. They also weigh about the same, and locking mechanisms are standard across the board, so the blades won't close by accident and sever a finger. But look more closely, and you will see trade-offs. The SwissTool has a metal-saw blade, great for prison breaks, but it lacks scissors--a deal breaker in my book. The Leatherman has the most balanced selection, but it lacks the useful miniruler that's etched into the casings of the Swiss-Tool and the PowerLock...
...through France, Belgium and the Netherlands. His mission: sell Western European governments on a new Bush Administration plan to post U.S. Justice Department prosecutors overseas in unprecedented numbers. "The sinews that hold a terrorist network together are money, communications and transportation," Chertoff told TIME before his trip. To help sever those sinews, Chertoff wants to have American prosecutors stationed in key capitals, where they can work behind the scenes with their counterparts to overcome the legal and cultural obstacles to shipping evidence to the U.S. for use in court...
Minichiello of Spin-off Advisors says carve-outs enable parent companies to establish a division's market value, a particularly useful exercise if they plan to bail out of it altogether in a few years. Nestlé insists that it has no plans to sever all ties to Alcon, though analysts still expect the food giant to untether the eye-care group eventually. As for Deutsche Telekom, it won't be Europe's first long-distance operator to unload a wireless unit. British Telecom last year spun off mm02, and France Telcom floated a piece of its Orange mobile unit...