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Gunning the engine, Laurel races down the rutted track. Even before the truck comes to a halt, Trevino is out and running. Suddenly shots are fired, and bullets buzz overhead. Muffled shouts and the sounds of breaking branches come from a thicket of mesquite. Then more shots, this time a short burst from an automatic weapon. A handgun replies purposefully. The shooting stops as abruptly as it started...
Approaching the case of Baby M the New Jersey Supreme Court might have wished for the sword of Solomon -- not to divide the child, but to cut through the Gordian thicket of paradox, bad faith and conflicting feelings that has surrounded the matter from the start. As it turned out, in a unanimous ruling last week the court sliced the issue in a way that gave important concessions to both the parents, but cut to the quick the practice of surrogacy...
...when he is old enough, Captain Midlife may call a convention of his words, spread them on the floor before him and write an autobiography. It would begin with a description of the Captain as a boy, when he lived beside a park into whose thicket of dark trees he would peer at night from the height of his apartment and search for the love who awaited him there. Exactly what she looked like he could not say at the time. She was exquisitely beautiful, he was certain of that: gentle and intelligent, quiet, stubborn, funny, kind. Sometimes he imagined...
...people want to put back the overgrown regulatory thicket that grew during the 1960s and 1970s. The U.S. was clearly due for a round of regulatory rollbacks, especially in light of the relatively minimal intervention that the Constitution seemed to contemplate when, for example, it authorized federal regulation of commerce "with foreign nations, and among the several States . . ." At the time, the Constitution's framers championed a free-market system with little Government interference. Says W. John Swartz, president of the Santa Fe Railway: "The Founding Fathers would be astonished at the amount of rules we operate under today. Regulators...
Economy & Business: The Government's power to regulate commerce has grown from a few words in the Constitution to tens of thousands of pages of turgid prose that cost consumers billions of dollars. The Reagan Administration has chopped back the thicket of rules, but now the trend is beginning to turn the other...