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...exposed, in fact. Last week three planes ferrying refugees and wounded soldiers were attacked with missiles, killing more than 100 people. But even the blackened wreckage fails to deter those who are still trapped. "Couldn't they at least send cargo planes to take us out of this hell?" sobbed a woman on the tarmac, clutching the hand of her bewildered daughter. "Nobody cares for us at all. Nobody...
...congressional liberals are still bound to resist expanding capital punishment, especially given the absence of evidence that doing so will actually prevent violent crime. "If you can show me how adding 50 more death- penalty provisions is going to deter one person, then I am for it," says Michigan Congressman John Conyers, a leader of the Congressional Black Caucus. "Why not 100 more? How about I reach your 100 and I bid 110, and someone else that's tougher on crime is for 150? So what? The one thing that's been proved in my 30 years in this business...
Perhaps, but will that deter further attacks? The case might never have been cracked without the help of Salem. FBI agents insist he did not drop into their lap: they were led to him by contacts carefully cultivated in the Muslim community. "There was some damn good police work involved," says one. But it seems unlikely that a similarly highly placed informant could be located in every incipient terrorist group. And, says former FBI director William Webster, there are "dozens and dozens" of similar groups around the country; their very lack of central organization or direction makes them difficult...
Suicide, the unpunishable crime, has always posed a challenge to societies that want to deter it. Under English common law, suicide was a felony punishable by burying the body by a public highway with a stake driven through the heart, to keep the spirit from wandering. It is no longer a crime in the U.S., but assisting in one is illegal in more than 20 states. No one knows how often doctors write the prescription and whisper the recipe for a deadly overdose; but one informal survey of internists last year found that one in five say they have helped...
...change Hollywood. It would be a kind of self-censorship--the only kind of censorship that should be allowed. The government should never involve itself in outlawing movies, no matter how offensive; that would be worse than the problem itself. But the evils of government censorship should not deter citizens from speaking out against what they feel is hurting society...