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...using Cockell as the back door. Watching the Administration's doomed attempt to push its argument through the courts was like witnessing a man spending a week falling down a flight of stairs. Starr subpoenaed the agents on Tuesday, just a week after a three-judge federal appeals panel upheld a lower-court ruling that rejected the protective-privilege claim. By early Thursday morning, Cockell and six officers were at the courthouse in Washington, ready to walk the plank into Starr's grand-jury room. So great was the attention on them that Tripp was able to enter the court...
Last Thursday a Maryland appeals court upheld that ruling. Within a few weeks, Cornilous could be taken from the heartbroken Maryland woman with whom he has spent almost all of his short life and who wants to adopt him. The case has drawn national attention and fueled a bitter debate over the courts' strong bias in favor of "family preservation." Complains Bill Pierce, president of the National Council for Adoption: "It is not in Cornilous' best interest to be part of a social experiment to observe what might happen if Latrena Pixley is given one more chance...
...Dear Penthouse: I'm an Army sergeant stationed in South Carolina who has to sneak off the base to buy your magazine..." The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the ban on Penthouse at the PX, confirming the military's right to ban the sale of sexually explicit magazines on military bases. "The decision shows that the Court continues to give great deference to what the military calls its need to maintain good order and discipline," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "The military works under a different set of rules from civilian society, and for the most part the Court...
...History will look to Desert Storm," Bush said. "We did it with honor. We upheld the integrity of the White House...
...side. The ability of a successful company to add functionality to its product has long been upheld. There is no precedent for taking a technology product and breaking it into pieces...