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...behalf didn't hold up to scrutiny. "Everything she said was suspect," Newton told Time, adding there was never serious dissent among any of the jurors during the 11 1/2 hours of deliberations. "We had a unanimous verdict throughout all of it. The mischievous-animal charge was a no-brainer, then we decided involuntary manslaughter, and then there was some discussion of second-degree murder and implied malice." The grand jury that handed up the original indictment last March didn't seem to care for Knoller and Noel either: after hearing the couple's testimony, the panel added the murder...
...risk of being called a homer, this one’s a no-brainer. Winter has softened the blow of Clemente’s departure as well as anyone could have hoped. Offensively, he’s discovered some nifty low-post moves to go along with a reliable mid-range jumper that has him averagining 8.6 ppg. Defensively, he has settled into his body and, against Penn last month, Winter outmuscled Penn’s ultra-talented Ugonna Onyekwe. Harvard has not given up anything on the boards with Winter, either. The 6’6 forward is pulling...
...This is a no-brainer, and a non-partisan issue,” Dukakis said. “We also have a lot of Republican support...
...stand to protect it. We may not live among our neighbors, but we do inhabit their larger community. We’ll live in this community four years, and we have an obligation to inform ourselves about the issues that affect it. And in the case of a no-brainer like this one, we owe it to the community to vote in its interests...
...sounds like a no-brainer, but like any new information in the battle over gun control, it?s bound to ruffle a few feathers: Registration and licensing requirements deter criminals from buying guns. That latest bit of data in the gun control debate, courtesy of the Center for Gun Policy and Research at the Johns Hopkins University, indicates that stricter guidelines for gun purchases mean fewer firearms end up in the hands of criminals. States with the lowest incidence of criminal gun activity are those with both licensing and registration guidelines. And the best results of all, according...