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...many in the Solomons, life has improved dramatically since mid-2003, when an Australian-led rescue effort - the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) - arrived to calm long-running ethnic tensions and prevent the country from falling into anarchy. Dozens of violent militants are in jail or on trial, thousands of weapons have been confiscated, and corruption investigations are cranking up. Australia will spend $A247 million this year on its participation in RAMSI; other South Pacific nations are also giving security help. The shattered economy is gaining momentum, and an election is scheduled for April...
...Court, in Bob Jones University v. United States (1982), upheld the constitutionality of this provision against claims that it violates the First Amendment guarantee of religious freedom, noting that eradicating discrimination is a fundamental government interest and that mere revocation of special tax treatment “will not prevent those schools from observing their religious tenets.” Furthermore, in Employment Division v. Smith (1990), no less a conservative than Justice Antonin Scalia wrote for the Court that “an individual’s religious beliefs [do not] excuse him from compliance with an otherwise valid...
...shutout was ruined 5:41 into the third period Friday evening, when Nick Johnson took a feed just outside the crease and beat Daigneau at the left post. But Daigneau made 34 saves in his nearly 51 minutes of play, after which Donato pulled him to prevent injury. And also, the coach added, because “sometimes when you pull a guy out, he gets an ovation, and I thought John certainly deserved an ovation by himself.” Backup Justin Tobe made a perfect 10 stops in 9:26 of relief. ALONG THE BOARDS This was Harvard?...
...Tuesday, Federal District Court Judge James Ware ordered Google to turn over a sampling of users’ search queries to the Justice Department. The government claims it needs Google’s data to show that young people are getting around software intended to prevent them from seeing pornography. As with any case that raises privacy concerns, Ware was responsible for weighing competing claims: Google’s right to protect its data against the government’s need for information to enforce (and, in this situation, evaluate) its laws. In this case Ware made the wrong decision...
...there are signs of a movement from within the parties to reign in the excesses created by the two-party dominance. In January, the Kurdish parliament announced plans to merge the two administrations. Barzani told TIME that one of the driving forces in merging the administrations was to prevent abuses created by individuals within each party. "The aim was to have some constitutional institutions in the country so that the PUK and the KDP and together with the other parties could become civil society parties, so that law will be the ruler in this country, so that there will...