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...were, as one Harvard Police officer called them, "major players." For this reason, we feel their sentence was too light, in that two years' probation is not enough and their fines should be greater than the $2,500 they will pay in court fees. We would have endorsed a harsher punishment as long as they were kept out of prison. We realize that had Blankenship and David been, for example, poor residents of the projects of Cambridge, their sentence may not have been as lenient, and they would perhaps have been given the mandatory minimum, but unless these hypothetical dealers...
...other hand, Agnew deserves harsher criticism than he has recieved. His harangues against the press did not merely "rais[e] issues of media bias, arrogance and unaccountability that are still banging around," as Lance Morrow wrote last week in Time magazine. Agnew was the point man in Nixon's crusade to gut the First Ammendment, laying the rhetorical framework for police style measures in areas such as confidentiality of sources, gag orders and prior restraint. These attacks on free speech also included extensive and illegal intimidation of the press; they were intended to cow the mass media into becoming...
...what is arguably Wilson's magnum opus, The Truly Disadvantaged, published in 1987, Wilson turned his sharp eye on "the culture of poverty," a term he does not like. Wilson described the problems of the innercity--crime, welfare dependency, drugs--but in the context of even harsher problems like joblessness, racism and oppression...
Finally, Councillor Katherine Triantafillou entered the fray, urging even harsher measures...
...move that seemed to validate expectations that he would pursue hardline policies, Netanyahu offered former Defense Minister Ariel Sharon the Infrastructure Ministry. "The appointment of Sharon, who led the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, is bad news for the peace negotiations," says Fischer. "He is known for even harsher hardline views." Netanyahu is making the U.S. visit in part to impress members of Congress, the American Jewish community and Wall Street, where he'll lobby for U.S. investments in Israel. -->