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...Harvard cosmology professor who serves as senior adviser to the provost on research policy, “is that if this becomes a bandwagon in Washington, and other agencies are also forced to go with the same kinds of caps on administration and overhead expenses, then it will affect all the research we do that is sponsored by the government...
...important to care deeply about the image of your race, but when you have to feel personally embarrassed for something that didn’t involve you, as many black students seemed to in response to the Lowell incident, you are tacitly accepting and condoning generalizations. Allowing bigots to affect your well-being only gives them more satisfaction. The best thing to do is to reject the labels, reject the categorizations, and ignore the supposed “ramifications” of an event like the Lowell “riot.”So no, an event like...
...What's more, even the changes in the guidelines will have only a limited effect unless the sentencing commission makes them retroactive - an issue it is expected to discuss at a Nov. 13 meeting. As of now, the new guidelines will affect only new offenders. If the commission decides to go retro, the move could shorten the prison terms for some 19,500 inmates by an average of 27 months...
...these changes in no way affect the mandatory minimum sentences Congress set in the '80s for drug trafficking. Back then, crack cocaine was associated with inner-city violence and drug-addicted babies, while the powdered version of the drug was considered yuppie nose candy. Congress cracked down so hard on crack that users who get caught with five grams of the stuff - about five Sweet'N Low packets' worth - get a minimum of five years in prison, which is more than the statutory maximum for simple possession of any quantity of powder cocaine, heroin or any other controlled substance...
...then, science has shown there is little difference between the two cocaine variants, but that didn't change the way the law treated them. Congress blocked the Commission's first attempt, in 1995, to reduce the sentencing disparity and so far has refused to change the laws that disproportionately affect low-level crack offenders. So while the new guidelines have reduced the penalties above the mandatory minimums, those minimums are still firmly in place...