Word: acte
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Whether Cellucci admits it or not, no matter how good the system is, there will always be those who fall through the cracks. This danger is heightened infinitely due to the irrevocability of the act. Under the death penalty, not only are innocents sometimes convicted, but it is extremely difficult to enforce a universal standard for those who are rightly convicted. Life without parole--a severe punishment which still recognizes human fallibility--is a more just alternative...
...notified that a stab victim had sought treatment at the Cambridge City Hospital. When officers queried the victim, Colbert Warfield, he refused to tell them how he had been stabbed. Later, Warfield's girlfriend told officers that he had stabbed himself in the arm "out of an act of love...
These two laws were passed with benign intent. The independent counsel act was designed to facilitate the appointment of impartial special prosecutors. The Inspector General Act was designed to protect patriotic whistle-blowers who seek to reveal malversation in government. But what these laws have in fact done is to create a fourth branch of government--powerful, unaccountable and wonderfully designed to make it hard to recruit people for public service and easy to intimidate them once they are serving. A priority for the 106th Congress should be the dismemberment of these institutional manifestations of our prosecutorial culture. Abolishing...
White's wild assertions about the Republican record on civil rights compel a response. His hate-filled diatribe ignores the fact that it was Republicans, led by Senator Everett Dirksen of Illinois, who broke the Democrat filibuster delaying the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and that without Republican votes, neither it nor the Voting Rights Act of 1965 would have become law. White's naked partisanship also ignores the 4 million Americans who have been given a fresh start, liberated from lives of dependency on welfare by Republican reforms in social programs. What ought to trouble...
...which also features audio clips of her work. On Feb. 5, when the electronica group Underworld offered a free, full-length MP3 file of a track from its forthcoming CD, its Web page received 400,000 hits in one day--an impressive showing for an only modestly famous musical act. And last year the Artist Formerly Known as Prince, who went through an acrimonious divorce from Warner Bros. Records, released a brilliant, ambitious five-CD boxed set titled Crystal Ball and peddled it on his website (for delivery by mail, like Brooke's CD). According to his spokesperson...