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...Next Generation Yoga will become sleeping doggies, lions and snakes before the 45-minute session is over. They will walk on their hands and feet with their butts in the air, balance on one leg and sit chanting "Om." Similar menageries are sprouting up across the country. With the zeal of the newly converted, baby boomers are introducing their children to yoga on the apparent theory that balanced lives begin with balanced children. And with their easy flexibility and willing imaginations, kids are proving natural yogis...
...Representatives, a perma-smiling new first family and maybe a musical or poetic solo or two, all in front of a sad looking Bill Clinton. While this is a pretty accurate summary of our country's inauguration last month, I was completely unprepared for the level of religious zeal that permeated the occasion...
...Despite growing public acceptance of such an approach, that balance is hard to find in most state drug laws. Some states, like New York, have longstanding adaptations of a "three strikes, you're out" law, which approaches even nonviolent drug crimes with the same zeal once reserved for violent offenders. The severity of the punishment varies from state to state. (There is no federal "three strikes" law.) "Various states have their own manifestation of three strikes - the essence of which is to put heavy weight on prior convictions, particularly prior convictions of a certain character," says San Jose criminal defense...
...prompted by the company's recent name change from "Harvard Apparatus" in anticipation of going public. The action is the latest in Harvard's wide-ranging campaign to crack down on companies who seek to profit from seeming to be associated with the University. While the University's zeal in protecting its trademark is understandable in most cases, this latest lawsuit crosses the line from prosecuting malicious pirates to punishing legitimate companies...
...into tiny pieces, which he was desperately trying to paste together by hand and by law. Was Gore just supposed to concede all over again, with Democrats across the land complaining that the only reason he hadn't won was because of botched ballots, undercounted votes and the blind zeal of secretary of state Katherine Harris, co-chair of Florida's Bush campaign? She did everything she could to delay the hand counts that Florida law allows, and then said that since counties had missed their deadline, the results wouldn't count...