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...restrictions on lawyers' conduct inside the courtroom as well: California Governor Pete Wilson wants to restrict an attorney's right to use political rhetoric in front of the jury, like Johnnie Cochran's urging them to "send a message" about racist misconduct. This sort of jury nullification, wrote syndicated columnist George Will, in which the panel is motivated by something other than the particulars of the case, amounts to "approximately what Groucho Marx said in the movie Duck Soup: 'Who are you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?'" Legal scholar Kamisar notes that juries now and then will...
This theme of race abandonment and being a traitor is echoed by Derrick Z. Jackson of the Boston Globe and columnist Molly Ivins. In a recent column ("Questioning Powell's beliefs," op-ed, Sept. 27) Jackson says that Powell "ate political caviar" while "the people in his sea of black and Hispanic faces were being told that ketchup was a vegetable, their mothers were welfare queens and the quintessential criminal in America was black rapist Willie Horton," and that Powell "is but an instrument for white people to feel smug about solving racism...
There is also a weekly current affairs dinner table for undergraduates only, led by Paula Childs, an editorial columnist for Tab newspapers
None of this mattered to the "protesters," who preferred to rage against Mansfield and include Will in this bizarre vendetta. What exactly was the point they were trying to make in protesting Will, a respected columnist and man of integrity? While conservative, Will has the intellectual honesty to attack sacred cows on both sides. As he showed on Friday, he can carry his weight in the classrooms as well...
There's no evidence that taking away benefits will turn back the explosion of illegitimate births. There are more powerful forces at work than a $300 monthly check. Columnist George Will warns fellow conservatives against saying "nothing could be worse" than the current system. They are underestimating the potential damage to children, he argues. He recalls similar rhetoric about another broken system: state-run mental hospitals. Patients were discharged into community-based programs for their own good. Turns out, something was worse: homelessness...