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...argument that the administration has presided over an "education recession," and he will try to pick apart the details of Gore's prescription-drug plan in an attempt to show it is as onerous as Hillary Clinton's failed health-care reform. The Bush people are also girding to defend their turf. "He will misrepresent the governor's record in Texas and his proposals for the nation," says Bush spokeswoman Karen Hughes. "But we look forward to explaining the truth." By the time they are finished with three debates, the two candidates will probably have explored every major policy...
...Scalia philosophy would slam the courthouse door shut on citizens bold enough to seek to enforce environmental laws that safeguard our air and water, defend our wildlife heritage and protect communities from toxic pollution. When Congress passed the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act and Endangered Species Act, these laws gave people the power to file lawsuits to prevent environmental crimes and protect their families' health without having to wait on the slow grind of government's gears. But Justice Scalia would strip citizens of the power to protect their families from pollution...
...abdomen. Both girls are widely expected to die without a separation - an operation that will likely end Mary's life. Friday, an anguished Appeals Court in London upheld a lower court's decision to separate the infants, ruling it is legal to end Mary's life in order to defend Jodie. "I freely confess to having found [the decision] truly difficult to reach," one Justice said at the conclusion of the case. "Difficult because of the scale of the tragedy for the parents and the twins, difficult for the seemingly irreconcilable conflicts of moral and ethical values...
...will the people of Serbia react? Will they flock to the streets to defend their votes or will they allow Milosevic to cheat them once more? This remains the biggest variable in the Yugoslav political equation. After the opposition failed in several attempts to mount massive protests in the past year, many in Yugoslavia are pessimistic. Some analysts, on the other hand, point out that the Milosevic power structure is much less homogeneous than usually assumed. They assert that the people will not sit calmly in the face of clear electoral fraud and notice that the Serbian pro-democracy movement...
...women's aid. Then they would slap the cuffed men and punch them in their groins. "Some of the men were flexi-cuffed [plastic handcuffs] while they were being hit multiple times by various members of the squad, and they were not able to fight back or defend themselves," the interpreter said. "They would also grab people who were watching what was going on, handcuff them, and hit them also...