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...January 2005, the high court finally gave an answer: enhancements required by the federal guidelines also violate the right to a jury trial, but the constitutional fix is to make the guidelines optional. So a judge can use his traditional discretion to determine sentences, while consulting the guidelines, and so long as the sentences are reasonable, they won't violate the Sixth Amendment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Much Time Will Libby Get? | 6/4/2007 | See Source »

...Palestinians. "The Koran says that if you kill your brother, you go straight to hell--and this is what we're doing," he says, outraged by recent news reports from Gaza of Hamas and Fatah militiamen killing each other in a power struggle. He thinks Palestinians should "try to fix our own problems before we take on the Israelis." Those problems are real enough. Because of international sanctions against the Hamas government, salaries aren't paid, and most Palestinians are broke. As it has been since 1950, it is the United Nations Relief and Works Agency that provides basic humanitarian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Shadow of the Six-Day War | 5/31/2007 | See Source »

...employers in Boston are hospitals with blanket no-CORI hiring practices, even in their janitorial or food services staff.With CORIs inhibiting most legitimate options for making a living, former convicts return to crime as their only way to survive. If America really wants to fix its obscene crime and incarceration rates, it has to examine the causes, one of which is a high rate of recidivism. People return to crime for a number of reasons, but without question, one is that they face a lack of alternatives. Discrimination against CORI-holders, particularly when the record is irrelevant...

Author: By Rachel M Singh | Title: Dangerous Records | 5/25/2007 | See Source »

Both Republicans and Democrats agree that our immigration system is broken, yet nobody seemed to be able to agree on how to fix it—at least until recently. Almost miraculously, a bipartisan compromise bill that has survived early challenges has emerged from the Senate. Though tremendously complex, at its heart the bill has several key features: a path to citizenship for most illegal immigrants currently in the country, the improvement of border security, a guest worker program, and a point system that will give skilled workers higher priority in receiving a green card. Although there has been some...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Reward Skilled Immigrants | 5/25/2007 | See Source »

...have proposed a large number of adjustments to a law she once compared to Ivory soap, saying "It's 99.9% pure." "We wrote the very best bill we could five years ago," Spellings told TIME, "but we've learned from our experiences." Meanwhile, members of Congress have their own fix-it agendas, as do state education officials and, of course, the teachers unions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Fix No Child Left Behind | 5/24/2007 | See Source »

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