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...TIME: Not since Rebecca has a dead woman cast such a spell over a movie...
...Besides Walt and Skeezix, the cast of central characters includes Avery, the penny-pincher, Bill the affable mechanic, and Doc, "adviser to the alley both as to physical ailments and mechanical ills." Women, at least at first, have only minor roles, with two exceptions. Mrs. Blossom, an attractive young lady of mysterious background appears halfway through this first volume to create some tension with the determined bachelor Walt. These sorts of plot developments - another involves a phony oil futures huckster - give the strip a narrative drive that take it well beyond a mere joke a day about cars and kids...
...French use the English term "fair-play" more than the English do, but it took on an ironic cast amid claims that the Brits had pushed too hard to land the 2012 Games. Learning from previous failed bids when Paris was painted as arrogant and pushy, Mayor Bertrand Delanoe had opted for modesty, letting Paris's Olympic merits speak for themselves. The failure of that approach in the face of full-court lobbying by the British left him bitter. "What made us lose was fair play," Delanoe said from Singapore. In Paris, Pascal Bildstein, vice president of the French Triathlon...
...Casey. The more pressing matter of late-term-abortion bans is sure to come before the court soon. In 2000 the court ruled 5-4 that a Nebraska ban was unconstitutional because it didn't include an exception for women whose health was endangered by pregnancy; O'Connor cast the decisive vote. On the same grounds, the federal ban has been ruled unconstitutional by three district courts, and it could find its way to the Supreme Court in the coming years. Next term the court is scheduled to hear a case involving a New Hampshire parental-notification law that...
...battlefield may have seemed quiet of late, but the war over affirmative action isn't necessarily over. O'Connor cast the decisive vote in the landmark 2003 case Grutter v. Bollinger, which upheld the University of Michigan Law School's admissions policy of taking race into account on a case-by-case basis. In a separate ruling concerning Michigan undergraduate admissions, the court said rigid race quotas or formulas were unconstitutional. Any number of groups could potentially spark a new challenge. Anti-affirmative-action activist Ward Connerly is spearheading a 2006 ballot initiative in Michigan that would amend the state...