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...fellow citizen. The proposed mens rea standard (already accepted in certain states) seems ambiguous at best. The question of intent or motivation, separate from the crucial one of illness, is thorny and puts us closer to equating illness with "evil." In any case, restricting a legal rule will hardly deter the actions of those who would normally use it. The convicted ill would only become mistreated, untreated prisoners. The small numbers and type of accused, it seems, must force the debate into less charted ground and away from simplistic solutions. The legal and medical discussion of just how sick sick...
Despite Brustein's comment, of course, a lack of academic arts offerings didn't seem to deter dedicated Harvard and Radcliffe students in the past. Without University sanction, students founded the Pierian Sodality (now the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra), the Glee Club, and a multitude of other art performance groups...
...building to a major reversal. The most likely target is a favorite law-and-order bugaboo, the exclusionary rule, which requires judges to throw out evidence in a criminal trial that police obtained in violation of the suspect's constitutional rights. The rule is designed to deter police from strong-arm tactics. But its occasional effect is to exclude evidence vital to the prosecution's case, so that a guilty defendant goes free on a "technicality...
...ONLY must our government beef up security, it needs also to address the question of retaliation, because an undeterred criminal will strike again. We have yet to deter or punish anyone, despite our brave words that we would avenge our dead. After last year's Marine bombing, the U.S.A promised to "respond to this criminal act." Nothing ever happened, even though Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger '38 later said the bombing was executed with the "sponsorship, knowledge, and authority of the Syrian government...
Attorney General William French Smith declared that the verdict would not deter the Government from conducting undercover operations in the future. Since 1977 the FBI budget for such investigative techniques has climbed from $1 million to $12 million. While Assistant FBI Director William Baker conceded that the agency's procedures for conducting a sting operation might need some "tuning up," he claimed that the verdict will not set a precedent. But Democratic Congressman Don Edwards of California announced that he will push for legislation for tighter control of such operations in the future; he proposes that in some types...