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...enforce federal law in states that refused racial integration. But the courts soon wandered into unlegislated gray areas. They imposed forced busing to achieve school integration, allowed racial preferences in hiring and school admissions, extrapolated a constitutional right to privacy and declared abortion legal in the 1973 Roe v. Wade case (and more recently, on the state court level, allowed gay marriage). Many of these were worthy decisions, but they were never voted on. Over time, as the Democrats became the minority party, their efforts to hold on to this last area of solace became more desperate...
...video. I missed film tremendously. Film had soul; video had nothing. Video's just a way of making money. It flows like water, but film had a texture, a feeling, something you could grab onto and feel." Then tragedy struck with the AIDS plague, which took Chuck Vincent, Wade Nichols, Tony Taylor and Holmes. "What happened to the sexual revolution?" asks Humphry Knipe. "It caught AIDS and died...
...dime riding on India? Not at all. If you want a sense of how significant the country is becoming, consider this: since December, about 150 of Udwadia's Harvard classmates (out of some 900) have traveled to India to witness the emergence of this economic powerhouse. But don't wade into these waters with a blithe sense that the returns of the past two years are repeatable?or you'll end up battered and fried, alongside a whole lot of Big Fish...
...Jurisdiction for Gacaca Services. Over the past 10 years, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania, has completed trying just 23 cases of political leaders charged with genocide and crimes against humanity. By some estimates, it would take 100 years for Rwanda's regular court system to wade through the hundreds of thousands of other crimes - including murder, torture and looting. So the government opted to expedite the process by firing up the gacaca network. In so doing, they have selected a system that is as much about reconciliation as it is about punishment. If suspects confess, they...
...that the Dems lost the presidential race due to so-called Moral Values, the party has been backpedaling on its core stance faster than you can shout “get your laws off my body.” Rational Democrats are beginning to say that losing Roe v. Wade wouldn’t be such a big deal—after all, we’d still have abortion in Massachusetts...