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...despite an appellate court?s clear wishes that he do so ?- the 12-year sentence he had given Fortier a year ago. Ordered by the appeals court to use new, lowered sentencing guidelines (involuntary manslaughter instead of first-degree murder), Bebber stuck by his guns. TIME legal correspondent Adam Cohen can see why. "It?s unusual for a judge to butt heads with an appeals court and go so far above the guidelines," he says. "But clearly this was a crime far and above the usual...
...should be given credit." For Bebber, a reduction from 171 1/2 years to 12 was more than enough "credit" for a man who pleaded guilty to knowing about the whole deadly scheme beforehand. "This is an Oklahoma City judge who?s part of the community that this traumatized," says Cohen. "He?s obviously passionate about this. If you?re going to be tough, this is the crime to be tough about." Said a battle-weary McGuire afterward: "Might as well just get the ball rolling on the appeal...
...finalists are Abate, Christopher A. Amar, Hector C. Bove, Samuel C. Cohen, Adam D. Colvin, Fazili, Hunte, Virginia Grace James, Jones, Justin M. Krebs, P. Terrence McGovern, McNeil, Michels, Murphy, Robby S. Schwartz, and Shen...
...thrown object, both essential skills in our history?) Why would genetic intelligence have evolved strictly along the lines of IQ tests? Since most human family lines have become literate only in this century, how can we argue that literate tests provide a fair measure of evolved skills? MARK NATHAN COHEN Distinguished Teaching Professor State University of New York Plattsburgh...
...shocks me that in response to a question regarding U.S. intervention in East Timor [WORLD, Sept. 13], Defense Secretary William Cohen had the nerve to proclaim that "the U.S. cannot be and should not be viewed as the policeman of the world" and that the new hot spot is not in the "vital interest" of the U.S. This from the man who only months ago was advancing the Clinton policy that we all had a moral obligation to help the Kosovar Albanians against the oppressive Serbian regime. Perhaps U.S. motivations were not so humanitarian as claimed. ROBERT C. MULLINS Geneva...