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That conflicted reaction, even to an admittedly extreme case, is one glimmer of what legal experts describe as a looming backlash against the tough-on-juvenile-crime bills that politicians scrambled to enact over the past 10 to 15 years. "More states are looking at the impact of what they did," says Shay Bilchik, executive director of the Child Welfare League of America. "They're hearing from their judges, prosecutors and child advocates that we're giving up on way too many kids...
These thoughts and patterns--the construction of reality to enact a fantasy, the conception of home, the synthesis of art historical references within the context of the present--are evident through all of Wang's work. One might say that his work reflects the archetypal codes of all of our lives...
With this refusal, campaign members say they have, in a sense, exhausted the traditional channels to enact change...
...volunteers tried to enact "Primal Scream" and "Britney Spears", the act often brought loud laughter, and sometimes shock, from the audience...
...butter in her shopping cart before returning it to the shelf. "It's French," she explained to no one in particular as her reason for selecting another brand. She was expressing the resentment that she and many other Turks feel at the French National Assembly's decision to enact a law recognising that genocide was committed against the Armenians under the Ottoman Empire...