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...voter, and upon the legislator who enacts the laws; but a judge, I think, bears no moral guilt for the laws society has failed to enact," he wrote. "Thus, my difficulty with Roe v. Wade is a legal rather than a moral one ... [I]f a state were to permit abortion on demand, I would - and could in good conscience - vote against an attempt to invalidate that law for the same reason that I vote against the invalidation of laws that forbid abortion on demand: because the Constitution gives the federal government (and hence me) no power over the matter...
...summer plans. Anna Raginskaya ’11 spent last summer as an intern at Sotheby’s Auction House in London. At the end of her internship, she was offered an unpaid position for the following summer, an opportunity she had to decline recently due to work permit complications. “It was a really painful situation,” Raginskaya said. “There is so much value to interacting with different people and different business practices.” According to U.S. State Department spokesman Robert A. McInturff, student work permits are processed through...
...people in their houses using mortgage assistance programs without helping them pay down the principle on their loans. These balances will get further out of touch with the overall market each day as the economy goes through a natural cycle. At least allowing them to go into foreclosure would permit the housing market to fall based on the fundamentals of supply and demand. (See pictures of Cleveland struggling to weather the housing crisis...
...Water Wing patrols 24 hours a day by speedboat. Ferries carry laborers from the remote villages downstream to jobs in Dhubri, Guwahati or Siliguri, and each one is stopped by BSF guards, who check passengers' documents to prevent Bangladeshis from slipping through. "After sunset we don't permit boats to ply," says A.K. Hemram, commander of the battalion there. "Any boat will be considered as influx...
...nearly five-month impasse, opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai (below) has agreed to serve as Prime Minister in a power-sharing arrangement with President Robert Mugabe. Although the political turmoil may be over, Zimbabwe faces a cholera epidemic, mass hunger and hyperinflation. The central bank has said it will permit the use of foreign currency and announced on Feb. 2 that it would chop 12 zeros off new notes, making an old trillion-dollar bill equal to one new Zimbabwean dollar...