Climatewire, March 25, by Colin Sullivan
http://www.investorvillage.com/smbd.asp?mb=4632&mn=6612&pt=msg&mid=4416500
“I think the PUC [Public Utility Commission] has done about the best job it could in trying to set it up in a way that would hold up in court,” Farber said. “They’ve certainly thought hard about it.”
Oakland Tribune, March 24, by Mike Taugher
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_20080323/ai_n24956434
“It seems that 22 years after the (appeals court) decision, the Delta is in worse shape,” said Richard Frank…. “The application of public trust values makes a lot of sense,” he said, adding that such a proceeding is “the unfulfilled legacy of the Mono Lake decision.”
Newsday, March 24, by Tom Brune
http://www.newsday.com/services/newspaper/printedition/monday/news/ny-usrace235624517mar24,0,4961041.story
“Obama’s success has exploded cynical preconceptions about the willingness of voters to cross the color line,” he said, “although it would be wrong to suggest that either race or gender is irrelevant….” The question is, Edley said, “Can the political process get beyond those simple but powerful, demography-driven narratives to appreciate the character, values and policies of three real people”?
San Francisco Chronicle, March 23, by Carolyn Jones and Bob Egelko
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/22/BA27VP3K1.DTL
“From the standpoint of keeping the streets safe, she was a candidate for Social Security when she showed up at the beginning of her term,” Zimring said. “This apparatus is all extraordinarily arbitrary.”
The Times-Standard, March 23, by Thadeus Greenson
http://www.times-standard.com/ci_8668539?source=most_viewed
“The main goal was just to make it equal,” Lemon said, adding that she and others faced some opposition in changing the law. “I think No. 1 was the assumption that when people marry, they consent to sex—that wives consent to sex at any time, and don’t really have the right to say no.”
San Francisco Daily Journal, March 20, by Brent Kendall
http://www.dailyjournal.com
Elisabeth Semel … was pleased with the outcome but found it “very peculiar” that the Court did not focus on the Simpson-specific facts or the racial issues that surrounded the entire trial. Semel … said the opinion was “stripped of all its important racial context…. It’s a missed opportunity to talk about race.”
Mercury News, March 20, by Sean Webby
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_8642914?source=most_viewed
“San Jose has an extremely low homicide rate—even this year—by Bay area standards,” Zimring said. “There are no indications in this small collection of cases that there has been any real trend.”
Slate.com, March 19, by Diane Amann
http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/convictions/archive/2008/03/19/what-em-snyder-em-did-not-say-about-race.aspx
“The U.S. Supreme Court is to be commended for what it did in Snyder. But on this day when America ponders Sen. Barack Obama’s profound unmasking of the issue of race, it seems proper to question the decision of the Court to leave so much unsaid.”
Nature.com, March 17, by Erika Check Hayden
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080317/full/452265b.html
“The re-examination has strengthened WARF’s [Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation] position,” Taymor says. “It has deflected attention from the downstream patent landscape that WARF and Geron have created, and which is much more critical to commercialization than the fundamental patents.”
U.S. News & World Report, March 17, by Emma Schwartz
http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/world/2008/03/17/the-challenge-of-prosecuting-bosnian-war-criminals_print.htm
The limited enforcement “raises this perception of legitimacy and fairness,” says Laurel Fletcher, a human rights law specialist. “[These cases] are essentially associational crimes, and people are feeling that in the context of a war, when they weren’t given a choice and political dissent was not permitted, that they shouldn’t be judged for their actual association.”