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...President should support U.S. Circuit Judge Jon Newman's call for a law that would more easily permit the victims of police brutality to recover monetary damages. To ensure payment, Newman would have the Federal Government bring lawsuits directly against local governments. "A city pays when a garbage collector negligently causes a motor-vehicle accident," says Newman. "The city should similarly pay when one of its officers commits an act of police brutality." Newman would also eliminate the good-faith defense: "The reasonableness of ((one's)) belief in the lawfulness of his actions should not stand...
There's one other clinic in Mississippi, but lately it has not been open for business. When Dr. Joseph Booker first moved to the coastal town of Gulfport to set up a gynecology practice in 1988, local officials granted him every permit he needed to start business. But when he purchased a small commercial building last year and made plans to relocate his Gulf Coast Women's Clinic, he got a different reception. In January, when he applied for a permit for interior reconstruction, Harrison County code administrator Ben Clark told Booker he had learned that abortion was part...
...building. Four of the five hospitals in the Gulfport-Biloxi region have denied Booker admitting rights that would guarantee his patients a bed in the event of complications. For good measure, the local power company has refused to provide electricity to his unfinished clinic until he secures the building permit he cannot...
...emerged as a populist issue that no politician can resist. This year Michigan Senator Carl Levin introduced the "Corporate Pay Responsibility Act," which, among other things, would permit shareholders to vote on the policies directors use to set compensation. The real target of the bill is stock options, which Levin describes as "stealth compensation" because the value of options does not show up on the books of companies as expenses. So long as companies don't have to expense the value of options against earnings, says Levin, executives will be generous about awarding themselves this form...
...more emphasis to maintenance and research and development. In part, the government is recognizing the exciting possibilities that truly lie down the road: innovations that go well beyond surface improvements. Initial government contracts are already out for an "intelligent vehicle" system involving electronics embedded in roadways that will someday permit drivers to punch in their destinations and watch TV or snooze while their cars or trucks race merrily on their way. But before the country can turn to such 21st century roadway wizardry, it must first win the battle against pesky and dangerous potholes...