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...court. No federal gun-control law has ever been struck down on Second Amendment grounds. "The Second Amendment's preamble makes it clear," explains Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe, "that it is not designed to create an individual right to bear arms outside of the context of a state-run militia." As a consequence, Congress has been free to limit gun ownership and sales...
...women out of the Citadel. Under the plan, women would take academic courses at Converse and receive their military training at a site other than the Citadel. State officials had approached the college after courts had ruled that the Citadel had until August to either admit women to its cadet corps or establish a separate but equal program elsewhere. Lawyers for Shannon Faulkner, whose legal battle to be admitted into the state-run Citadel prompted the arrangement, said the program is not an acceptable substitute: "For women to be leaders of men, they can't learn such skills...
...believe we can and must avoid this authoritarian alternative. Russia is not the country it once was. Our free press is a safeguard for democracy. Let me assure you, it does not let us rest. More and more Russians are involved outside the state-run sector and have experienced the advantages of such employment. Public opinion is changing too. Polls show that even those voters who favor strong state power and law and order mostly oppose giving up our democratic achievements and values. Having said that, I would be bold enough to say the line that continues and develops democratic...
...been fueling the economy for the past 18 months. Despite Clinton's move last August to diminish the remittances sent by Cuban Americans to their families back on the island, millions manage to get through. Last year Cubans spent nearly a billion dollars buying imported consumer goods in 600 state-run stores across the island...
...island's economy had ceased its free fall but warned that the recovery will be painful and slow. Cuba leaves much to be desired in basic infrastructure, such as communications and power supply. Moreover, the government has yet to face up to its most difficult challenge: paring down inefficient state-run industries and the loaded bureaucracies that serve as the backbone of the socialist state. Laid-off employees have nowhere to go for work, and the government has so far allowed only 160,000 people (out of a total population of 11 million) to seek self- employment...