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Technically, Cash is right. In Nevada, California and in fact most of the U.S., doing nothing about a crime is no crime at all. Only a handful of states--including Vermont, Wisconsin and Minnesota--have "duty to assist" laws requiring those who witness a crime to offer aid and report it. Cash's callousness, though, has sparked a movement in both California and Nevada to pass something called "Sherrice's law" to require witnesses to intervene and report cases of sexual assault against children. If necessary, says Najee Ali, spokesman for Sherrice's mother Yolanda Manuel, advocates of the proposed...
...that a "hollow-backed" violin he had designed was better than anything from Cremona. Sensibly, he set out to record (and idealize) what he knew: the everyday rural life that was the protein of Jacksonian democracy at the dawn of the Age of the Common Man. He got an assist from Hogarth, whose prints he had seen, and from 17th century Dutch genre painting, with its flirtatious girls and grinning yokels. His first public success came in 1830, with Rustic Dance After a Sleigh Ride, plagiarized from a German genre painter named John Krimmel, who had worked briefly in America...
...just when Starr was tightening the screws, a higher power intervened to take away his screwdriver. Last Wednesday a federal judge threw out a 10-count indictment against Webb Hubbell, charged with tax fraud in April, after Starr failed to get the former First Friend to assist him in the Arkansas phase of his investigation. Starr had leaned on Hubbell, who had already spent time in jail for bilking clients and partners at the Rose Law Firm, to give up anything he may know about Mrs. Clinton's legal work in questionable Arkansas real estate deals. He was her former...
When the Class of 1973 returns to Harvard, Bokbecomes the University's 25th President andselects several vice presidents to assist incampus administration...
...your article on environmental activists protesting an international trade agreement [NATION, April 27]: I want to point out that the National Wildlife Federation and other like-minded groups aren't antiglobalists. We know that properly balanced trade rules can assist nations in achieving the economic growth necessary to afford environmental progress. But that balance is being forsaken by the Clinton Administration and the World Trade Organization. In ruling against the U.S. law to protect sea turtles in shrimp fishing, the wto ignores its own charter provision that allows actions that protect natural resources. The "enemy" of wildlife and the environment...