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...representatives in this debate. In 2009, Congress will have to reapprove the transportation bill, providing a chance to remove the clause that threatens withholding of highway funding for states with minimums beneath 21. Removing this counterincentive could be the first step to allowing state legislatures the freedom to look toward alternative alcohol policies...
...streets of Baghdad and other cities, there is mounting discontent over the poor delivery of such basic services such as water and electricity. The resentment is fueling growing apathy toward the political process and alienation from the government. Few Iraqis are hopeful that upcoming provincial elections will help improve their lot. Likewise, the change of U.S. command doesn't mean much to some Iraqis. "General Petraeus, General Odierno - what difference does it make to me?" said one Iraqi working near the U.S. military base where the handover ceremony took place. Maybe he, too, was waiting for General Electric...
...launching a committee to review the treatment by the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) of minorities on campus, the University has taken an important step toward addressing and improving race relations at Harvard. Although many such committees—especially those at Harvard—prove to be the deathbeds rather than the springboards of initiative, the University has vested this particular committee with the influential members and wide latitude necessary to effect positive and tangible change in how HUPD interacts with minority groups on campus. Now, the Harvard community can only hope that this committee makes good...
...industry's apathy toward Righteous Kill reveals both how badly the reputations of Pacino and De Niro have suffered in the past 13 years, and how fully the studios have abandoned the kind of pictures that made them stars. Righteous Kill is not a classic like The Godfather a or critical darling like Heat. It's a workaday crime thriller, opening in more than 3,100 theaters. But it's likely to be profitable for Overture, which is almost certain to recoup the more than $10 million investment it made in Righteous Kill at the Cannes Film Festival last year...
...took a much stronger line than I did in [the leadership contest]," says David Davis. "He would use a word like detoxifying the party. He thought that was the predominant mission, and arguably he was right." That meant Cameron ditching some of his own bred-in-the-bone leanings toward social conservatism. In 2003 Cameron opposed the repeal of 1988 legislation banning local authorities and schools from "promoting" homosexuality. He now says his earlier stance was a mistake...