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Most marijuana users who get caught smoking a joint summarily pay a fine, but when an undercover police officer detained Richard E. Cusick and R. Keith Stroup, the two chose instead to challenge the constitutionality of Massachusetts laws banning marijuana for the first time in 30 years...
...many ways, we've seen it before: caught on tape, a mob of police officers surrounding and savagely beating a seemingly subdued suspect. The officers are white. The man writhing on the ground is black. National civil rights activists then arrive seeking justice for the injured. But in many ways, the latest case - in Philadelphia on May 5 - is different...
Where similar cases, from Rodney King in Los Angeles to Sean Bell in New York, have provoked protests and even violence, the reaction in Philadelphia has been muted ever since a news helicopter caught more than a dozen white officers kicking and beating three black men who were arrested as suspects in a shooting on a city street. "This was just a very unusual situation and I think the public reacted to it as an unusual situation," says Mayor Michael Nutter, who was swift to denounce the beatings after the tape showed on local television. "It doesn't represent anywhere...
...faced the toughest possible second seed in the tournament in the No. 17 Red Raiders (20-5 at the time, 20-6 after a loss Sunday to No. 16 Michigan) and gave them a run for their money.“I think we caught [Texas Tech] off guard,” co-captian Dan Nguyen said. “I don’t know whether they thought that the No. 51 team could challenge them. We certainly didn’t make it easy for them.”The match, which was cut short after...
...Laguna Beach” spin-off “Newport Harbor: The Real Orange County.” Even as I followed the lives and dramas of Newport’s privileged teens, I found myself wondering why. It’s not difficult to become caught up in reality shows, but their appeal proves subject to a paradox. They end up exposing the very fact we try to escape by watching in the first place: Most people’s lives are really boring...