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From Guatemala to Colombia, from South Africa to Russia, the Law School's Center for Criminal Justice has catapulted itself into new territory, with a mission to foster democracy and curb human rights abuses...
...Center for Criminal Justice was to examine legal issues on a domestic level. But in the past five years, the center, directed by Ames Professor of Law Philip B. Heymann, has catapulted itself into new territory, into countries where there is still considerable potential to foster democracy and curb human rights abuses...
...example, Arkansas parents who fail to attend parent-teacher conferences can be fined, and students who drop out of school are denied driver's licenses. "Not everything we do that is wrong is illegal," says Clinton. "The trick is to provide the incentives and disincentives that can curb such behavior...
...committee, which also includes Boston Mayor Raymond Flynn and Cambridge Mayor Alice K. Wolf, discussed proposals to curb unemployment and redirect federal funds from defense to urban centers, Dinkins said at a press conference before his speech...
...latest flare-up of black-Jewish tensions was sparked on the hot, muggy evening of Aug. 19, when a station wagon driven by a Hasidic Jew ran a red light, collided with another car, then jumped the curb and struck two black children. Gavin Cato, 7, was killed, and his cousin Angela Cato, 7, was seriously injured. Crown Heights blacks became enraged that the driver, Yosef Lifsh, a member of the ultra-Orthodox Lubavitcher sect, was not arrested and charged with Cato's death. Their anger was compounded by the false rumor that Lifsh was drunk and by the fact...