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Moreno's critiques, however, steer clear of slapstick approaches and stay with harsher evaluations, with references to Dean Robert Clark as "Mein Dean" and Law School men as "dateproof to the bitter...
...property after class hours must extend the same right to religious groups. In a case involving the Afro-Cuban religion called Santeria, they also ruled that religious groups have a constitutional right to sacrifice animals in worship services. The Justices also unanimously backed the right of states to impose harsher sentences on assailants who commit hate crimes in which they choose their victims based on race, religion or other biases. "A physical assault," wrote Chief Justice William Rehnquist, "is not by any stretch of the imagination expressive conduct protected by the First Amendment...
...judgment this time is harsher for the police, there will be some suspicion that it represents expediency and fear of another riot rather than fair weighing of the evidence. Maybe so. But guilty verdicts would also reflect the fact that this prosecution, led by Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven Clymer, did a better job. It relied less on the celebrated videotape, which the defense at the first trial dismissed as a partial record, and more on live testimony -- from weeping or infuriated police who rejected clubbing and kicking as unnecessary and wrong, from seasoned medical experts who debunked the defendants' blow...
...clemency to pardon them before he leaves office next month. Add JONATHAN JAY POLLARD, now in his eighth year of a life term in Marion, Illinois, for spying for Israel. Pollard's attorney has asked for a commutation of sentence, arguing that his client's life term was much harsher than those meted out to other recently convicted spies. President-elect Clinton has said he favors a review of the sentencing...
...there's a harsher reality. Little Rock, having conquered the outward racism of 1957, when Gov. Orval Faubus tried to keep nine Black students from beginning the integration of Central High School (now 65 percent Black), is a city of inwardness and hidden feelings...