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...bill sponsored by Sen. Francis X. McCann (D-Cam.) instructing the Metropolitan District Commission to construct underpasses along Memorial Drive at River St., Boylston St., and Western Ave. The following spring, when the MDC began to take test borings, the somnolent Cambridge community finally became aware of the heinous goings on at Beason Hill. But the apparent falt accempll threw everyone into a dispairing hair-pulling tizzy. Although local residents resolved to oppose the project, it looked like a classic case of post felony barn-door locking...
Judge Cox dismissed the felony indictment, holding that "the indictment surely states a heinous crime against the state of Mississippi, but not a crime against the United States." At the same time, he ruled that the men must stand trial on the lesser charge, which carries a maximum penalty of one year in jail and a $1,000 fine...
...with a cheer. An M.P. from Northern Ireland thanked the Prime Minister "for this wonderful news." Wilson replied cautiously, "I would not myself call it wonderful news. I think it is a satisfactory end to an unhappy chapter." The British mood was well expressed by the Daily Telegraph: "However heinous his guilt may still be thought, he paid for it in full: it is time to close the account...
...some prisoners to leave jail during the day to work and see their families (similar to systems long used in other countries, notably Sweden). On the other hand, Bennett's tolerance stops at the death penalty. Unlike other reformers, he wants it kept on the books for particularly heinous crimes, such as high treason, murder for hire and airplane bombings...
...portion of our society that seeks to perpetuate white supremacy, if he neglects to condemn openly and forthrightly its bigotry, if he hopes by his silence to encourage its vote, then he may be successful. But he will have sold out his convictions and become President for the most heinous reason in our nation's history...