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...loose enforcement, some particularly powerful people on both sides have taken extreme viewpoints in an effort to end the political stalemate and force Americans to choose. Either pot is not so bad and should be legal, or people should be arrested for smoking it. The battlefield for the showdown is Nevada, where Question 9 would allow adults to possess up to 3 oz. of pot for personal use. In fact, the state government would set up a legal market for buying and selling pot. To almost everyone's surprise, the race is too close to call...
...Harvard football team looks to crash another homecoming party this weekend as it travels to Hanover, N.H., for an Ivy League showdown with Dartmouth...
...answer is no, Washington will almost certainly go to war. He'll likely be on the hot seat from day one: The U.S. is not inclined to indulge Baghdad, this time around, and Blix may find himself dispatched on inspection missions whose very intrusiveness provokes a showdown regardless of whether weapons are present. If, for example, Blix goes knocking on the door of a "presidential site" where Saddam happens to be sleeping, the Iraqis will almost certainly deny the inspectors access - and that may be enough to trigger...
Harvard, now ranked fourth in the Northeast, comes into the regional showdown fresh off a thrilling double-overtime victory over previously unbeaten Princeton. The Crimson still needs help if it hopes to secure the Ivy League Championship—namely wins in its remaining two league games and a Princeton tie or loss against Cornell this Saturday...
...That was just the opening act of a contentious political drama still playing out on the floor of the Diet, one that may prove the most important showdown of Koizumi's career. The fate of Takenaka and his banking plans has become a critical test of the underwhelming Koizumi era. If Koizumi enacts the package without sacrificing all of its major planks, the path toward sweeping economic reform may have finally begun. If, however, the formidable phalanx of Koizumi's opponents blocks the proposals?or waters them down to the point of irrelevance?then the Prime Minister's credibility...