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...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...
...city lashed out. Commentators complained that Tom's friends hadn't turned him in during the Mazatlan trip--"Portland, we have a problem," a columnist lamented. Prosecutors were even harsher. Five of the six people involved have now pleaded guilty, and because of mandatory-sentencing laws, most have received at least four years. Even Celia Reynolds, who reluctantly drove Tom and Ethan to and from a supermarket robbery (and somewhat less reluctantly took a share of the proceeds afterward) will spend a full two years in prison for her role...
...truth is not pretty: a Chinese crackdown on domestic dissent harsher than anything since Tiananmen in 1989; allegations of a concerted campaign of espionage in U.S. nuclear labs; an American trade deficit with China of $57 billion that is second only to the nation's deficit with Japan; and a brewing showdown over providing Taiwan with defense systems against China's ballistic-missile buildup. Relations between Washington and Beijing are frostier than they have been for years, and some in Congress are even talking as if China were the new cold war enemy...
...Never before in my lifetime on university campuses have I seen students demanding a penalty for a classmate harsher than the one being considered by the administration. Much as I credit the seriousness of rape, I have to wonder at the political hysteria that has turned students against one of their own. Why this vindictiveness against a student already punished by the law and expelled from the campus for the next five years? Why the vendetta, the drumrolls, the slogans...
Never before in my lifetime on university campuses have I seen students demanding a penalty for a classmate harsher than the one being considered by the administration. Much as I credit the seriousness of rape, I have to wonder at the political hysteria that has turned students against one of their own. Why this vindictiveness against a student already punished by the law and expelled from the campus for the next five years? Why the vendetta, the drumrolls, the slogans...