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...majority, Justice Lewis Powell assumed that the study was valid but said it did not prove discrimination in McCleskey's case or in Georgia's death sentencing generally. "Because discretion is essential to the criminal justice process, we would demand exceptionally clear proof before we would infer that the discretion has been abused." To raise successful equal-protection objections, a defendant has to prove discrimination "in his case." Nor did the numbers show the sort of arbitrary dispensation of justice prohibited by the Eighth Amendment. They merely indicate, he wrote, a "discrepancy that appears to correlate with race...
...could even infer that Harvard disagreed with the implementation of the old drinking age. Upperclassmen can remember the winks of proctors as they read you the rules and handed you a cold one. Before this year, no one could remember getting carded at a campus-wide party. Harvard's tacit disapproval of the drinking age has shaped campus social life and spawned the breed of social animal that needs alcohol to party. If Harvard wanted to enforce the drinking age, they should have been doing so all along. If Harvard wants to enforce the drinking age now, they should ease...
...film opens with the murder of Page Forrester (Maria Mayenzet), a rich socialite whose death transfers untold amounts of money and power to her husband Jack (Jeff Bridges.) Cynical readers, at this point, will immediately infer that Jack must have killed his wife. They will be convinced of this logical conclusion even further when they are told that a hunting knife identical to the murder weapon is conveniently located in Jack's locker at the country club. But it is not wise to be so smug about one's superiority as a sleuth when only the first 15 minutes...
Enough is enough. Of course foreigners benefit from our technology, just as we benefit from Swiss watches and Japanese cars. But while information can be obtained, a missile silo cannot, as the purposefully vague Reaganese threats would like us to infer. The Administration's spy-hunting hype has passed the bounds of mediocre entertainment to the point where it now threatens the most fundamental freedoms of our more or less open society. With all its shadowy accusations and logical pratfalls, the Administration must not be allowed to dupe the public into fearing Commies when it should fear abridgements...
Similarly, although those with a good understanding of Colombian history could infer that Marquewz was writing about his native land, the author provided scant clues to the location of mythical Macondo...