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That claim is sharply contested by defendants'-rights advocates. "It's not just once in a while that you see a lawyer make a mistake," insists Charles Hoffman, an Illinois public defender who pursues appeals for death-row inmates. "It's over and over and over again." It's easy for inexperienced lawyers to make a mistake. Under the rules established by a 1977 Supreme Court decision, lawyers in a criminal case must recognize potential violations of fair procedure as soon as they take place and raise the objection in court. If they fail to do so during the trial...
What I envision is an expanded, rational version of the kind of political theater practiced by Abbie Hoffman or ACT-UP. A few of us, just those diehard political types at first, would take video cameras and go visit local elected officials and candidates in their offices. It would begin at colleges and graduate schools, or among grassroots activists in cities. In a city like Boston, local activist groups could descend on the state legislators. In Washington, the vast army of students and activists could work on the whole Congress...
...revolution will start small, because so few of us are still interested in politics. There will be a few acts in a few state legislatures by a few small groups. Then, as the television images and stories spread, as they did with Abbie Hoffman's shenanigans 20 years ago, people will rush to join. And while these tactics will draw us with their TV thrills, they will keep us because we will start learning the issues. And, more importantly, they will keep us because we will learn that it is still possible for us to make our voices heard...
...chairman of the history department, uses the system to teach a course on the Vietnam War. "Now I can discuss the My Lai massacre, press a button and show a two-minute segment on it," he says. "I discuss the antiwar movement and pull up a segment on Abbie Hoffman." His undergraduates, children of the sound-bite era, take to the course like, well, MTV. "Of 105 students only 10 got below a B," Edmonds says. "That's never happened before...
...appreciated the opportunity to talk with Michelle Hoffman, a Crimson reporter, on Sunday evening. Her article, published in The Crimson the next day, described the Midyear Report of the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR...