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...tools. Three years later, it is back for more. In the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001, Ashcroft seeks to give cops and the FBI yet more powers, including a provision that would allow the Justice Department to detain immigrants suspected of terrorism indefinitely, in contrast to the current time limit of 48 hours. A coalition of civil libertarians and conservatives suspicious of big government has slowed the bill's progress through Congress. Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy told TIME that "the biggest danger is that [terrorists] unravel the constitutional protections we've spent 200 years as a democracy...
Peter and Lourdes Brown, both 50, thought they had reached a healthy balance of limit setting and open dialogue with their 20-year-old twin daughters Michelle and Angela. "We have always had a very open approach to their sexuality. The bottom line is we don't want them to deny portions of their lives with us--we want to have real relationships with them, not artificial ones," says Peter. But artifice was exactly what was at play when one twin told the Browns that she was sleeping at a girlfriend's house, only to have Lourdes call and discover...
...Prime Number $35 billion is the estimated cost to insurers of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The industry says it will sharply limit coverage of terrorism acts...
...Maine voters made history when they overwhelmingly approved a referendum to limit state representatives and senators to four consecutive terms. The only organized opposition came from legislators themselves. People have a right to restrict their choices, and with term limits they have done so deliberately and with the full understanding of the tradeoff it entails. In exchange for partially limiting their choices among candidates, they correctly believe that they are limiting also the accumulation of political power in the hands...
...common argument among term-limit opponents that the restrictions turn out good, hardworking, popular incumbents like Guiliani along with the less likable legislators that term limits target. In truth, however, we cannot measure the number of good, talented people who never run for office and never have the opportunity to serve because they are locked out by the power of incumbency. However, there are several cases of term-limited members trying to stage a comeback by running against their replacements. In half of these cases, voters decided to stay with the new member, even though it is likely that without...