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Over the past five years, however, every state except Hawaii has decided to allow some kids to be tried in adult criminal courts. Altogether, some 12,300 youths are prosecuted as adults each year in state courts. That is about 9% of all juveniles arrested for violent crimes and a 70% increase over the number who were tried as adults a decade ago. But if the bills become law, those numbers would climb further. Child-welfare advocates say that would effectively dissolve the separate system of justice for kids that dates to 1899, when Chicago established the nation's first...
...movie's ultimate revelation is disappointing and frankly pretty cheesy, circling (without landing on) a vaguely "spiritual" resolution of Ellie's quest. On an intellectual level, it's no resolution at all but rather a sop of vacuous humanism that teaches Ellie nothing except the value of patience--and perhaps a little humility...
...announcing the return of the money. Said Senator Joseph Lieberman, a Democrat: "It certainly looks like the movement of foreign money into an American campaign in 1992." TIME's Viveca Novac, though, notes that scaled-down ambitions get scaled-down results. "There's nothing there that's really new, except just another donation returned," she said. "And Lieberman has always been the one most willing to accommodate the Republicans. The Democrats might not like what he's saying, but it's not going to change things much for them." So far, at least...
...changes, such as free TV time for candidates who agree to limit their spending and public financing of campaigns. These are good ideas, if you are willing to gut the Bill of Rights and make the First Amendment read, "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech except in the case of political participation...
Everyday occurrences aren't exactly fodder for future fund-raisers. Take an ordinary supper in the dining hall of my college (colleges are like Harvard houses, except that Oxford has about 40 of them). The hall is about 500 years old and is bedecked with portraits of famous alumni and old Masters: Harold Wilson, Clement Attlee, Bill Clinton...