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...more than a chance to democratize Miami's discussion on how best to democratize Cuba. It's also a bid to reconnect the city--plagued by voter fraud and rampant official corruption--to mainstream U.S. civic values, as well as to its potential as the hemisphere's trade, tourism and cultural nexus...
That has been Reno's line since she ruled three months ago that only Elian's father could legally speak for a child so young. (Juan Miguel, a Communist Party member and tourism employee, was divorced from Elisabeth but was granted joint custody of Elian and has been closely involved in his upbringing.) After a federal judge backed her two weeks ago, Reno started talking tough to the exiles, hoping to stop their bid to return to state family court--where elected judges have shown in this case that they can be manipulated by Miami's political leadership. Reno demanded...
...bread-and-butter business would be lofting satellites into high-Earth orbit. Now he thinks he may have figured wrong. "People were always asking me when they could go," says Kelly, who runs Kelly Space & Technology out of San Bernardino, Calif. "I realized the real market is in space tourism...
...oxygen, life support or return trip necessary--already costs an astronomical $10,000 per lb. And that doesn't include the cost of insuring rich and possibly litigious passengers. John Pike of the Federation of American Scientists acerbically suggests the entire group of entrepreneurs trying to corner the space-tourism market have between them "just enough money to blow up one rocket...
Many have excused the actions of Giuliani and the NYPD because of the "good" that has occurred during Giuliani's tenure as mayor. Supporters cite the falling crime rate and increased tourism revenues as ends that justify the invasive undercover police operations that ostensibly cleaned up the city. Crime, however, has fallen dramatically nationwide, often in cities whose police made no consistent effort to reduce crime. As the community-oriented actions of the Boston police have shown, law enforcers can fight drug crime without resorting to undercover operations that infringe on people's civil rights...