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...about to be paroled. "When things like that happen, you jeopardize the ability of the person to ever readjust to community life," says Stephen Bright of the Southern Center for Human Rights. Such a reaction "enhances the chance they'll return to crime," he warns. Civil libertarians contend that notification laws are unconstitutional and have the effect of illegally keeping people in custody after they have served their sentences. However, such arguments carry little weight with people like relatives of the Heatons whose determination is that it must never happen again...
...rounds wouldn't prejudice all potential jurors. This afternoon, attorneys for Larry Demery -- one of two 19-year-old men accused of shooting Jordan last year as he slept in his car -- fought to see police dental records that supposedly identify the unrecognizable corpse. In the meantime, the lawyers contend Jordan faked his own death to escape debts and a threatened palimony suit...
...hold a moment of silence each day. Instead, on South Gwinnett High School's opening day yesterday, American government teacher Brian Bown filled the minute with a discussion of the new law. Although the law's language says it isn't meant to impose school prayer, Bown and others contend that's the real intent. It's the kind of constitutional issue that could make its way to the Supreme Court...
...available white infant, five for every biracial baby, less than one for every black infant. "It's difficult to find homes in this country for mixed-race infants," he says, "and especially difficult for black infants." His claim is echoed by adoption experts from Atlanta to Beverly Hills, who contend that the number of white couples adopting black children has shriveled since 1972, when the National Association of Black Social Workers denounced transracial adoption as "cultural genocide." These same agencies and lawyers also complain that there is a paucity of black adoptive families...
...each other. I agree that Ax's playing casts the largest shadow on these recordings. His clear and often too-powerful playing in the Schumann starkly highlights the roughshod scampering of Laredo and Stern. Laredo's most credible playing comes in the third movement, though his rich solo must contend with Stern's wavering obbligato...