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...lock and key, and 20,000 of them are confined in the 31 supermaxes operated by the states and the Federal Government. That may represent only 1% of the inmate population, but it's a volatile 1%. Push any punishment too far and mental breakdown--or at least a claim of mental breakdown--is sure to follow. When that happens, a constitutional challenge can't be far behind...
Tuesday, Jan. 23. The day we buried you. "Yes," you once said, "we Turkish Armenians do have a claim to the soil of this country, but not to take it away, as some accuse us of secretly plotting, but to be buried deep under it." Your funeral was spectacular. Tens of thousands marched. They carried signs that said, WE ARE ALL HRANT, WE ARE ALL ARMENIANS...
...whom an older generation of Conservatives dismissed as a pot-smoking, skirt-chasing lefty. But even Dale would like Cameron to signal to traditional Tories that "the old issues will be treated as seriously as the new ones." That might mean an overt reiteration of the Tories' traditional claim to be the party of low taxation. Or - always a favorite with the right wing - blaming the European Union for Britain's ills...
...time asked, "Does sending more soldiers to Iraq make any sense?" [Jan 15]. First, President George W. Bush's opponents claim we don't have enough troops to do the job. Then, when indications are that more will be sent, the same folks claim that won't work either. There's no place for such political cynicism, whether it is espoused by congressional Democrats or Time magazine, when the lives of American troops are on the line. John Jaeger Irvine, California...
There has been plenty of finger-wagging lately over the quality of undergraduate instruction at Harvard: “The professors can’t teach!” we students claim, pointing to consonants on our transcripts and snoozing peers in lecture. We’ve got reason to complain: We’re here to learn, and in order for us to understand how to do something, someone needs to teach...