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Panelists talked about subjects ranging from the religious targets of certain hate crimes to the moral justifications some use when arguing that hate crimes deserve harsher punishments than other crimes...
...Rican population. To characterize the support for the Puerto Rican prisoners as a defense of violence or terrorism would be a mistake. Rather, the support has emerged out of a sense that the prisoners were unjustly sentenced by a system that has often judged members of minority groups by harsher standards...
...this is industry self-love, though, it's tough love. While TV has turned the camera on itself from The Dick Van Dyke Show to The Larry Sanders Show, the current mirror gazing is not just more insider-oriented but harsher. Rob Petrie's foibles were along the lines of tripping over the ottoman, not buying a $250,000 screenplay from "the wrong Jew" in a case of mistaken identity, as Jay Mohr's smarmily obnoxious producer, Peter Dragon, does in Action's pilot. Beggars, a sharp satire set at the fictional bottom-tier network LGT, updates Network for broadcast...
These measures are the wrong way to approach preventing another tragedy like the one in Littleton. Juveniles are uniquely receptive to rehabilitation and should not be imprisoned with hardened criminals. Kids who commit heinous crimes must be punished, but they must also be allowed to have a future. The harsher sentencing of juveniles as adults is not a proven deterrent and puts impressionable youngsters in contact with those least likely to help them re-integrate into society...
...Orioles on Monday, and it looks like the real controversy will stay off the field. According to the Associated Press, fans will be unable to display banners during play, and "political and commercial messages will be banned." This is in response to an expected thousand protesters urging either a harsher Cuba policy or an end to sanctions, the number suggested by Rep. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), who opposes the game. The Orioles have reasonably announced that the protestors will be kept out of the stadium. But in attempting to keep political statements out of the parking lots...