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...recent dissent from The Crimson Staff's position ("Staff Contradicts Position," Opinion, Jan. 23, 1995), Jamie W. Billett '95 points out the irony that the staff supports decentralization in the case of moving registration from Memorial Hall to the Houses, but is against decentralization on the issue of local determination of rent control. I'd like to point out a little irony of my own. Mr. Billett says he supports rent control, but look at what "control" has done in the past. Such evil forces as Hitler, the Russians and my sixth grade science teacher all used "controls" to carry...
...only one who found the circumstance of his execution implausible, if not illegal. Though the U.S. Supreme Court curtly dismissed his final appeal by a vote of 6 to 3, Justice John Paul Stevens wrote a sharp / dissent. "I find this course of events deeply troubling," he wrote. Stevens said that if the prosecutor's arguments at the trial of Jacobs' sister were correct, "then Jacobs is innocent of capital murder." Said George Kendall of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund: "The state should have reopened his case and, at the least, vacated his death sentence, if not his conviction." Even...
...that is exactly what they have done. By refusing to grant Jacobs' stay, our nation's highest court became complicit in a judicial homicide. Save for the dissent by Justices Stevens, Ginsburg and Breyer, the court prioritized procedure over good sense and let an innocent man be killed...
...government has a history of supporting nations that blatantly disregard the human rights of their citizens. From Chile to Greece to Indonesia, we have provided military aid to governments that crush political dissent and brutally repress populist movements. All across the globe, American-made tear gas and riot-control vehicles have been used to disperse peaceful demonstrations. American made rifles, explosives and tank have been accessory to the murder of innocent people who dare to criticize their governments and to the ousting of democratically elected officials. Clinton's new policy would jeopardize the freedom and safety of dissidents and threaten...
...mayor still expressed dissent about the appointments...