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...Army will have a much tougher time punishing Hale now that he has retired. Responding to a written inquiry from Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine, Army Colonel Scott Black recently wrote that "although retired soldiers remain subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice, they are only prosecuted by courts-martial when extraordinary circumstances are present." And senior Pentagon officials say it will be much harder to reduce Hale's rank, and consequently his pension, even if Carpino's charges are substantiated. "Once he's retired, the burden of proof shifts from him to the Army," says Korb, the former...
...choose not to drive. An industry member at a state hearing argued that a couple of drinks "might improve driving ability." The Republican-controlled House Rules Committee, legislating under the influence of liquor-lobby money (nearly $17 million since 1987; Speaker Newt Gingrich got the most), killed the tougher standard last week. So let's raise a glass--or four--to the audacious more-careful-drunk theory...
...right hands before Congress and pleaded ignorance, a perjury charge Ken Starr could get his teeth into, if only he were not already representing these guys. When subpoenaed documents revealed an industry hell-bent on hooking kids, even tobacco's core congressional defenders blanched. Gingrich vowed he would be tougher than the President. The McCain bill, which raises the price of cigarettes to reduce teen smoking, sailed through the Senate Commerce Committee...
...competition will be a little bit tougher at New England's but it's still the Charles River, so we have a home-court advantage," Stearns said...
That advice served him well during negotiations that concluded last week with the Senate Commerce Committee's voting 19-1 for a sweeping $506 billion tobacco bill. Although tobacco companies are already threatening legal action and anti-tobacco lawmakers are promising to fight for a tougher bill, some version of the McCain Act will probably pass the full Senate by Memorial Day. If the House follows suit, by year's end the President will be signing the most significant public health legislation in a decade...