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...spycatchers, Wen Ho Lee is going home. Reversing a decision he made eight months ago to keep the suspected former Los Alamos scientist in prison without bail, Albuquerque Federal District Court judge James A. Parker set a $1 million bail and ordered a hearing next week to set some strict terms for the nuclear scientist's freedom...
Q.The 12th Amendment prohibits a state's Electoral College members from voting for both a President and a Vice President who are inhabitants of their own state. Is this a problem for Texas? If Bush is for strict interpretation of the framers' intentions, how can he think he gets around the Constitution by having Cheney--obviously an inhabitant of Dallas--register to vote in Wyoming...
...A.The strict interpreters have always made an exception for what they call "legal technicalities." To see the 12th Amendment as anything more than a legal technicality, you have to believe that the framers were trying to discourage tickets made up of, say, two oilmen from Texas...
...seniority: Verizon also agreed to use union workers for DSL installation jobs (it had wanted to farm the high-growth area out to non-union labor to avoid strict union work rules) but won the right to choose its teams rather than automatically award the coveted task to the most senior union members...
...your employer doesn't match, maybe you should find one that does.) But the difference between the no-match 401(k) and the taxable fund is not all that great and may not be enough to compensate for drawbacks--losing easy access to the money and having to follow strict rules on withdrawals...