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...will inject some involvement in a court woefully under-qualified in matters of commercial law. Justice Breyer is the only justice on the Court with experience in business litigation, and the Court’s reluctance to reform the neglected inconsistencies in the field has left a messy legal terrain...
...valley below Nevada's Snake mountains should not have much to fear from Las Vegas. Its dun-colored terrain daubed with the green of shrubs, meadow grasses and crops lies some 200 miles north of the roaring, metastasizing metropolis for which the state is most famous. But the 1.7 million people of greater Las Vegas may have designs on the fewer than 1,000 people of Snake Valley--or rather, on their water...
...will not get. Democrats were reduced to hoping they might hit some political pay dirt by scrutinizing what Roberts had written about the reach of the Constitution's interstate-commerce clause, which has figured in environmental and workplace regulation as well as civil rights cases, but is usually barren terrain politically...
...collectors' latest hunting ground is along the Sepik River. Dubbed the Amazon of the Pacific, the river writhes and loops 1,100 km from the country's heart through some of the wildest and most inaccessible terrain on earth. Cutting through mountain ranges, international borders, steamy jungles, swamps, lakes and flood plains, the Sepik monster nurtures some of p.n.g.'s most ancient tribes, who still live in tiny stilt huts and brave the river's treacherous currents, and large saltwater crocodiles, in their slender carved canoes...
Nonsense. The "distraction" argument is the most obvious nonsense. What exactly is the U.S. not doing in the war on terrorism that it would be doing if it weren't in Iraq? We are supporting a fiercely antiterrorist democratic government in Afghanistan, hunting al-Qaeda in the impossible terrain on the Pakistani frontier, coordinating with just about every secret service in the world to disrupt terrorist communications, movement and funding. What is it about Iraq that "distracts...