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...always trust that new dormmate of yours from Oklahoma who tries to sell you his 8MHz IBM PC which weighs at a bit less than 50 pounds. "It's heavier so it can hold all the chips," he says. Yeah, right...
...fall for a laptop. Laptops are older and heavier cousins of notebook computers. Although they look like notebooks, laptops weigh from eight to 18 pounds. Today they have been virtually replaced by notebooks, but some still sit on store shelves around and sell for irresistible prices. Avoid them. They are too heavy to travel with and too poorly equipped to be useful. And many of them can't run on batteries...
First Amendment absolutists lost, however, when the organization adopted a position in January on the hate-crime case being argued this week before the Supreme Court. The A.C.L.U. is siding with the state of Wisconsin's view that it is constitutional for courts to impose heavier penalties when an action that is already a crime, like assault, is motivated by bigotry. In a rare step, the Ohio chapter of the A.C.L.U. has filed a Supreme Court brief that opposes the national organization and argues that such laws are an inadmissible limitation on free speech. And while the national organization...
...most of the targets of hate crimes are blacks, Asians, homosexuals, Jews and members of other ethnic groups; crimes against them are especially reprehensible because these people are victimized on the basis of nothing more than their status. In their view, society should announce its values by placing a heavier weight of disapproval on crimes of hatred. Even without such laws, judges will sometimes take matters into their own hands. In December, Broward County Circuit Judge Richard Eade sentenced Bradley Mills to 50 years in prison -- going far beyond the 22 years that sentencing guidelines suggest -- for Mills' part...
That experience persuaded many U.S. trade experts, including close advisers to Clinton, to advocate "managed trade," implying much heavier-handed efforts to reduce the U.S. trade deficit with Japan, on the rise again at $49 billion last year. Miyazawa will try to hang tough but will probably wind up making at least some concessions -- though at the price of deepening resentment in both countries. And it is by no means sure how accommodating Japan will be this week when foreign and finance ministers from the Group of Seven industrial nations meet in Tokyo to put together a new package...