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...prosecutors had been granted too much power to send kids to adult court. But even if the state supreme court upholds the law, some lawyers from both sides of the aisle hope a compromise will be found somewhere between no judicial discretion and too much. Says attorney William La Fond, who challenged Prop. 21 in court: "In the old scheme, the defendant would get out when he was 25 years old. Prop. 21 says, 'Throw him in prison forever, no questions asked.' We need to ask if there's a middle ground." Determining whether a child is young enough...
...word pundit brings to mind an image of a pipe-smoking, tweed-jacketed know-it-all who is fond of quoting Dean Acheson, then you will be delighted--and relieved--by the freshness of the reporters and opinion makers you will meet on Take 5, a new talk show on CNN that will include a rotating cast of four TIME journalists. "We wanted a show that had the vitality and perspective of newer reporters," says Lucy Spiegel, the show's executive producer. "A lot of people came to our attention who were not covering their sixth or seventh presidential election...
...sensible snapback from the Greenspan worship we had before. Was it really right for one 72-year-old man, fond of long baths and Ayn Rand, to have so much control over our economy? "What would you do if something happened to Greenspan?" a reporter drilled John McCain during the primaries. "Well," said the Senator, "I'd put sunglasses on him and prop him up like that guy in Weekend at Bernie's." By last week, it was clear many folks were finally ready to bury Bernie. And that is going...
...middle of our living room and delivered his David Byrne impersonation, I wanted to know precisely what he meant by "This is not my beautiful house!/This is not my beautiful wife!" For most of my childhood my father helped me decode rock songs. With his guidance, I grew fond of boomer anthems I might have otherwise dismissed as stoned ramblings, like Steely Dan's Deacon Blues and Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues. And there were records in his collection I discovered myself, like Talking Heads' More Songs About Buildings and Food and Marianne Faithfull's Broken English, albums...
...campus into extinction. Yes, the death knell of Napster has at last come, much to the chagrin of the undergraduate community. By affirming the illegality of downloading copyrighted music, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals last week all but guaranteed that Napster will soon be nothing more than a fond memory. But while the court's decision has been lauded by the recording industry as a moral triumph, we cannot help but wonder whether the death of Napster was really a victory for the rest...