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Sharing the shock of his people, the newly elected Prime Minister, John Howard - just two months into his eleven-and-a-half years in power - seized the chance to overhaul Australia's gun laws, trampling all opposition to make them among the strictest in the developed world. "I hate guns," he said at the time. "One of the things I don't admire about America is their slavish love of guns ... We do not want the American disease imported into Australia." Howard argued the tougher laws would make Australia safer. But 12 years on, new research suggests the government response...
...Heller, a security guard, sued the district after it denied him permission to register, and thus possess, a handgun that he wanted to keep in his home for protection. A federal appeals court in D.C. sided with Heller, finding that the city's gun ban - considered the nation's strictest - violated Heller's Second Amendment right to bear arms. The text of the amendment, arguably one of the more convoluted in the Constitution, reads, "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall...
...federal order suggests a move toward more race-neutral policy, the use of race-conscious admissions policy in public schooling still has its place in American society. Certainly, race-based discrimination has a heavy and gruesome history in this country, one that has made the court apply the strictest scrutiny to cases involving racial categories. Yet, there remains a strong interest in maintaining integrated schools, even if they require race-conscious admissions policies. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, in his 2007 concurrence in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, reiterated our nation?...
...Cambridge last year, the Boston Police Department and Harvard administrators organized the strictest Harvard-Yale tailgate in recent memory. Regulations and checkpoints were everywhere. Every last detail was proactively enforced. Students were not allowed to bring any liquids into the event area, and students over 21 were required to receive a wrist band in order to be able to purchase beer and spiked hot chocolate (a policy repeated at Yale’s “student village” but not at the entire tailgate...
...town's spectacular lakeside setting with the Alps towering in the distance. But there are also good business reasons to set up shop in Zug. It offers some of the lowest tax rates available in any stable democracy. And its laws protecting residents' financial privacy are among the strictest on the planet...