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Since New Year's Day, Washington has seen 55 murders, and City Council Chairman David Clarke has proposed a radical solution to the wave of homicides. Last week he introduced a bill that would further strengthen the city's tough gun-control laws by extending a legal doctrine called "strict liability" to firearms. The law would classify guns as inherently dangerous products whose manufacturers and distributors can be held financially liable for damages caused by their use -- prompting gun dealers to try to keep their wares out of the wrong hands. The statute, says Clarke, "will attempt to do through...
Although the MGH researchers have so far not had to turn anyone away because of inadequate staffing, a strict screening process has eliminated about half of the applicants...
...component of the court's ruling was the requirement that all government distinctions based on race be subject to "strict scrutiny." This means that public-sector affirmative-action programs are valid only if they serve the "compelling state interest" of redressing "identified discrimination." Justice Thurgood Marshall, in a bitter dissent joined by Justices William Brennan and Harry Blackmun, called the decision "a deliberate and giant step backward in this court's affirmative-action jurisprudence...
...press conference last week, Bush said the United States should play a "catalytic role" in bringing about democratic rule in Afghanistan. But advisers stressed later that the U.S. would continue a calculated policy of strict non-intervention in Afghanistan...
...touch of hyperbole. The object of his barb: a Fed ruling last week that will permit five leading bank holding companies -- Bankers Trust New York, Chase Manhattan, Citicorp, J.P. Morgan and Security Pacific -- to buy and sell corporate bonds. The decision will enable the financial institutions to move, within strict limits, onto the turf of Wall Street firms, which have been encroaching on the banking business. Said Richard Huber, an executive vice president at Chase Manhattan: "We're very pleased. We applaud...