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...also cut the American Bar Association (ABA) out of the selection process, ending what has long been standard operating procedure for the last 50 years of administrations—including those of Reagan and the elder Bush—to have the ABA vet nominations. Republican politicians have often accused the ABA of being liberal...
...competency by functional abilities rather than a blanket medical diagnosis. These laws are designed to make it easier to define competency objectively. They also facilitate tailoring guardianships or conservatorships to specific needs. But such arrangements are still difficult to accomplish in practice. Erica Wood, associate staff director of the ABA's commission on legal problems of the elderly, says that in many cases, "the judge virtually gives over his or her decision to the doctor, who is usually not a specialist...
...York Knick to applause far louder than team and union leader Patrick Ewing got. And now Sprewell, who is leading his bottom-seeded team in an unprecedented run toward the NBA finals, symbolizes the entire league. After a shortened season filled with the sloppiest play since the ABA, the Knicks are thriving on the wildness that has been this season's leitmotiv...
Long before restorative justice gathered steam, Aba Gayle, 65, learned to forgive and to let go. Gayle says she knows all about "the big lie"--the promise that prosecutors make to relatives of murder victims that "everything will be O.K." once a murderer is caught, tried, convicted, sentenced to death and executed. In 1980 her daughter Catherine, 19, and a male friend were stabbed to death on a pear farm near Sacramento, Calif. Virtually disabled by what she called a kind of temporary insanity, Gayle attended the sentencing of Douglas Mickey as he received the death penalty for the killings...
...fatwa [decree] calling on the Islamic nation to carry on jihad [holy war] aimed at liberating holy sites. The nation of Muhammad has responded to this appeal. If the instigation for jihad against the Jews and the Americans in order to liberate al-Aksa Mosque and the Holy Ka'aba [Islamic shrines in Jerusalem and Saudi Arabia] is considered a crime, then let history be a witness that I am a criminal. Our job is to instigate and, by the grace of God, we did that, and certain people responded to this instigation...