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...President probably never calculated that he was creating a governmental strategy for these crucial weeks. It simply came from his heart and his gut, where so much of Reagan resides. It goes like this: get the old partisans fired up again with purpose and patriotism and make sure they are totally devoted to Reagan, not to the media or the bureaucracy. Then trudge...
Those who support the insanity defense argue that it lends moral credence to criminal law. Perhaps the real problem is trying to find a formula that preserves the public's sanity. Put bluntly, acquittals such as Hinckley's insult our gut instincts and our primitive sense of justice. "Is Hinckley's crime," the trial prosecutor asked, "the crime of someone who does not know what he is doing and who is out of control, or is it the crime of someone who has an evil, twisted and perverted mind?" The difference between being sick and depressed, psychotic and merely...
DEMANDS for reform after the trial were loud, political and, according to Caplan, inconclusive. The hope was somehow to reconcile that natural gut reaction which sees the act, the victim, the murderer and calls a spade a spade with the more informed need to preserve conceptions of human will, avoid the connection between illness and evil, and abstain from seeking the hypocritical solution of committing the sick to prisons that offer no treatment or hospitals that are no better than prisons. Discussion centered on two legal reforms: allowing for a verdict of guilty but insane; and restricting the scope...
...tackled the back for no gain when his knee or his foot when into my gut." Ford recalls. "Five of my teammates were behind me and fell on top of us. It hurt a lot, and as I stood up I felt dizzy and nauseous. I lined up for the next play but when the ball was snapped. I crumpled up like a ball to protect myself and left the game when the play was over...
...acting career, but have been with him throughout his hard-fought climb from the bottom up, from Minnesqta attorney general to senator to vice president. Just to cite a few telling examples: Mondale was one of the sponsors of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, whose intent Reagan tried to gut early on in his Administration. He helped to create the Leagal Services Corporation, whose job of providing legal aid to the poor Reagan tried to eliminate. And at a time when it was unpopular, the early 1970s, Mondale chaired a Senated committee that pushed for new aid for school desegregation...