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...time when the regulations were pro-business and 88% of the time when they were anti-business. "No other Justice comes close to this sort of across-the-board deference" to the states, Segal said in an e-mail. "Most justices are ideological: they vote to strike either liberal laws or conservative laws, but not both." But when Segal and Spaeth looked at cases decided between 1986 and 1998, they found that "only Rehnquist and [the late Justice Byron] White voted to uphold a majority of liberal and a majority of conservative laws...
Irvin threw for 286 yards, including a 39-yard touchdown strike to junior tight end Matt Farbotko that came just one play after freshman linebacker Eric Schultz recorded the Crimson’s lone interception of the afternoon...
...Producers are moving to restart production on the western and eastern edges of Katrina's strike zone, but assessment of the central zone where up to a third of the Gulf's rigs lie will not begin until midweek...
They change teams for the money and strike for more money. They don't care about you, but you care about them. When that happens in real life and goes on for decades unrequited, people get committed. I don't mean relationship committed. I mean asylum committed. It makes no sense. And I was cured. Bill Buckner cured me 19 years ago. Or so I thought...
Others argue that the new laws are inefficient because they focus on monitoring anyone who has committed a sex crime rather than those who are most likely to strike again. Those critics say that therapy to break the cycle of behavior, supervision by a parole officer and even polygraph tests to assess whether an offender is lying about his or her activities and urges would be a more effective way to control them. A 2002 survey of nearly 9,500 sex offenders found that those who underwent therapy were 40% less likely to reoffend than those...