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Despite rules forbidding any romantic relationships between recruiters and recruits, the Army has until now failed to enforce that ban with the intensity it has shown in denouncing the abuse at Maryland's Aberdeen Proving Ground. Last week a military jury there began deliberating whether to convict Sergeant Delmar Simpson of raping six female trainees under his command 19 times. One issue in his case is whether he used the sheer power of his position as a drill sergeant to intimidate women into submitting to him sexually. But recruiting stations present their own challenges to an Army trying to crack...
...efforts at codifying racial distinctions hardened into so-called miscegenation laws, which aimed to preserve the "purity" of the white race by making interracial sex a crime. Though upholding such laws required ever more tortured legal definitions of who was black and who wasn't, 16 states continued to ban interracial marriages until 1967, when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down such laws. In what was perhaps the most ridiculous example of racial pigeonholing, Louisiana ordained that anyone with a "trace" of black ancestry would be classified as black. Then, in an ostensibly "humane" 1970 reform, it enacted...
Sidewalks are for pedestrians and streets are for bikes, according to a Cambridge ordinance that will ban bicycling on all sidewalks in Harvard Square beginning Friday...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Some 16 months after House lawmakers imposed a partial gift ban on themselves, members of a bipartisan ethics committee are considering easing the restrictions. According to New York Republican Gerald Solomon, the current ban is too inflexible and should be replaced with one which allows members to accept gifts worth up to $50, the maximum amount now allowed in the Senate. TIME's James Carney says the panel's initiative will most likely die on the vine: "It probably won't go anywhere, because the House passed this thing with a lot of self congratulation, and to back...
...from the White House and said the U.S. will be "marginally better off with it than without it." With some 17 Republicans pinning their decisions on whichever way Lott voted, his move could be enough to muster the two-thirds majority that is required for ratification. The treaty would ban the use, development, production or stockpiling of all chemical warfare agents and require the destruction of existing stockpiles over the next decade. Many Republicans fear signing such a pact would leave America weak as countries around the world secretly build chemical weapons. But failure to pass the treaty would...