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Regardless of whether one agrees with the need for a living wage, as I do, and regardless of what one thinks of the sit-in, there is an argument for some type of discipline for individuals who were disruptive to the first-years living in Mass. Hall, who denied administrators access to their offices and who cost the University tens of thousands of dollars in police overtime...
...officer reported a man chasing a woman near 1 Oxford Street. Officers found that the two were having an argument and sent them on their...
...argument that my fellow conservatives (including President George W. Bush) tend to employ is that the death penalty deters homicides. Even if we execute an innocent person, they say, the effect is a net increase in the number of innocent lives saved. I would agree with this, if only the facts supported the assertion. The average murder rate in U.S. states with the death penalty is 8 per 100,000 people, while it is only 4.4 in states without a legalized death penalty. Between 1952 and 1967, California had an execution once every two months, while there were no executions...
That ambivalence has been reflected in a lively U.S. debate about whether or not the country can endorse the policy of blasting apart the skyborne narcodistribution system that sends pilots in small planes into Andean skies day after day. The argument against the policy, first raised in the early 1990s, was simple: it violated a fundamental precept of U.S. law enforcement, that cops never shoot to kill unless lives are in danger. Since both the U.S. military and the State Department felt bound by Supreme Court rulings that it is unconstitutional to use lethal force against fleeing felons, American planes...
...enemy's will. Sometimes the collateral damage has a moral justification--kill more than 100,000 civilians at Hiroshima, for example, in order to end the war and spare millions of lives, American and Japanese, that might have been lost in an invasion of the home islands. That argument persists, of course...