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...libation-loving French got sobering news about the consequences of drinking and driving. An appeals court in the eastern city of Nancy late last month upheld criminal charges against a couple who failed to prevent a drunken dinner guest from driving home - he killed himself and a family of four by heading down a nearby freeway in the wrong direction. The tribunal ordered Angélique, 28, and Jean-Sébastien, 30 - known only by their first names - to stand trial for "non-prevention of a crime or misdemeanor that causes bodily harm" after allowing...
...powers. As the swing vote in several 5-to-4 rulings, O'Connor brought her pragmatic, just-right-of-center judicial approach to some of the court's biggest decisions. Campaign-finance restrictions, the use of race in university admissions, California's "three strikes" laws--all were upheld last year with...
...style more than substance that distinguishes Dean Democracy from its predecessors--cyberstyle. When the Supreme Court upheld the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance-reform law last week, it was a ratification of New-New fund-raising practices. Soft money--that is, giant corporate contributions to political parties--is out; giant personal contributions to nonparty activist organizations like MoveOn.org are in. "The irony is, the Democratic National Committee could use soft money to run positive ads about our candidates," a prominent Democrat told me last week. "The law says MoveOn.org isn't allowed to promote individual candidates. They're limited to informational...
...help Taiwan defend itself, as outlined in the Taiwan Relations Act of 1979. It must reject the fallacious position that Taiwan is part of the PRC and demand an end to the use of force. The aspiration of the people of Taiwan to decide their own fate must be upheld and respected. And unless President Bush impresses this reality on Premier Wen at their meeting today, the U.S. will remain hypocritical and morally unjustified in continually turning a blind eye to these severe abuses...
Antiabortion forces celebrated a victory last week when Congress passed a bill barring so-called partial-birth abortion. But many observers--Democrats as well as some conservatives--doubt that the bill (which President Bush has vowed to sign into law) will be upheld by the Supreme Court since it differs little from a Nebraska law struck down by the high court by a 5-to-4 vote in 2000. The court ruled that because the Nebraska law did not contain an exception for cases in which the mother's health is at stake, it was unconstitutional. The new measure also...