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...Harvard Law School’s most well-known professors has taken a leave of absence to join the government of leftist Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula de Silva...
...industry to rise up against the widespread use of the mall as babysitter, and dozens of shopping centers have followed suit in the past two years. Some 46 of the 1,200 enclosed malls in the U.S. have adopted parental-escort policies, and others are likely to join them soon, according to the International Council of Shopping Centers. Says the trade group's spokesman, Malachy Kavanagh: "Every time I talk to security guys and management, more and more of them are considering doing...
...from Scalia and Thomas. As Cass Sunstein, the constitutional law professor at the University of Chicago, describes them, Scalia and Thomas are "visionaries:" justices with a clear view of the Constitution's meaning and an equally clear sense of how they want the law to change. They write or join dissenting or concurring opinions - like the one in this case, or the one that calls for reversing Roe v. Wade in April's decision upholding the federal partial birth abortion ban, or the one by Thomas that opposes free-speech rights for students in the Bong Hits 4 Jesus case...
...British political traditions, Brown's government promises to include ministers from outside Labour's ranks. Lord Ashdown, a Liberal Democrat and former leader of his party who went on to serve as High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, revealed last week that he had turned down an approach to join Brown's new-look cabinet. Other candidates may have accepted. Brown told the BBC he was also hoping to "draw on some of the talents of our society who are not normally associated with party political events and forces." He'll unveil the lineup of his new government before...
...Arab-Israeli summit in Sharm el-Sheikh on Monday is intended as a stern message to Hamas: Stop fighting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, or we'll launch a political war against you. But the sources say that the goal of the Arab regimes is to press for Hamas to join a new Palestinian unity government along with Abbas's Fatah party. Explains a senior Arab official, the decision to hold a meeting between Abbas, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Jordan's King Abdullah II and Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert "is a diplomatic warning to Hamas...