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Civil rights advocates argue that the law, aside from requiring ESP to recognize "specific intent," quashes free speech and is a thinly veiled crowd-control mechanism, and not necessarily one that works. Seattle had passed an emergency two-day gas-mask ban to little effect. Detroit passed one too, anticipating trouble at a June meeting of the Organization of American States, but the law was never used. "How in heaven's name can the average officer know what the 'intent' of the masked individual is?" asks Stefan Presser of Pennsylvania's A.C.L.U. "What the officers are going...
...chairman emerged Wednesday from a two-day meeting with his Federal Open Market Committee at 2:15 with the news that he would do what, by now, nearly everyone watching closely expected him to. The Fed left short-term interest rates alone and spoke ominously, if opaquely, about the future, the better to keep the markets on their guard about a quarter-point hike (already forecasted in some circles) at the FOMC's next meeting August...
...seats in the country?s legislature, lost 58 of the 120 seats contested at the weekend and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change immediately vowed to challenge the result in a further 20 in which the ruling party won by less than 500 votes. European Union observers proclaimed the two-day election anything but "free and fair" in light of a systematic campaign of violent intimidation by the ruling ZANU-PF, which the opposition blamed for their failure to unseat Mugabe?s party...
...Harvard plays host to an international education summit, setting up a two-day colloquium between seven presidents from China's leading universities and five from U.S. universities...
...bands hitting the road this summer include the perennially popular Dave Matthews Band (left), with multi-city U.S. tour including stadium appearances and two-day ampitheater stands. Blues Traveler plans a small tour leading up to a July 4 appearance at Red Rocks Amphitheatre near Denver, resuming a seven-year tradition that was interrupted in 1999 by the health problems of frontman John Popper. The band is currently working on its first album since the death of bassist Bobby Sheehan. Phish will tour the country, and the Allman Brothers Band and Steve Miller are also on tap at venues nationwide...