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...fighting along the poorly defined border between Peru and Ecuador has not yet satisfied the usual criteria for multilateral, international intervention (read: U.S. and a few others bank-rolled by Germany and Japan). We can easily count down--in order of importance--and then disregard the reasons used in the past for U.S. involvement...
Even as the lawyers wait for Ito to rule this week on the prosecution's 27 motions for sanctions--which could include an admonition to the jury to disregard some of Cochran's statements because the defense did not comply with California's discovery laws--Clark has already absorbed the new blows. Darden argued to the judge that some of Cochran's witnesses were not likely to hold up under cross-examination. He called them a collection of ``heroin addicts, thieves, felons,'' adding that one is ``a court-certified pathological liar,'' and the prosecution's research may bear this...
Judge Lance Ito rebukedO.J. Simpson's defense lawyers for bringing in witnesses at the eleventh hour and instructed the jury to disregard references to six such witnesses in last week's opening statement by the defense. In an unusual ruling, Ito said he would allow prosecutor Marcia Clark to add approximately ten minutes to the opening statement she delivered last week, so that she may point out inconsistencies in the defense presentation. Ito also told jurors that the defense had violated the law in withholding information from the prosecution, and had caused delays in the trial. He forbade the defense...
...Contract With America attacks safety and environmental protections and regulations, especially under the guise of cost-effectiveness. Callous disregard for public safety is not new; in 1982, for example, the Reagan administration stopped the Department of Health and Human Services from issuing warnings that aspirin could cause Reye Syndrome if given to children with flu or chicken pox infections. Reye Syndrome caused about 360 deaths per year, as well as brain damage to many survivors, but the administration met privately with aspirin manufacturers who feared losses of $100 million, and was able to block warnings for three years. Another example...
...doing, these students and faculty members have demonstrated a willful disregard for the dangerous consequences of such an action. The case for banning homosexuals from the military is not based upon bigotry but rather on the realities of military life. The presence of openly homosexual individuals in the military would be damaging to morale and potentially disastrous in combat situations...