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...would urge the University to be relatively lax in disciplining groups or individuals who put up posters illegally, regardless of whether the party is liberal, conservative or simply interested in selling futon. Illegal postering does make for more crowded kiosks. But in a university setting, one in which we want to maximize the amount of intellectual discussion and political debate, it is better to risk having too much free expression than too little...
...spent most of the flight sipping a cola, reading, and being videotaped by a passenger. He stepped off the plane at LAX into a mob of flashing lights and anxious reporters: Did the quick verdict favor the prosecution? one asked. "Not necessarily," Cochran replied. Was he surprised at the brevity of the deliberations? "Yes," he said. "I am surprised." Then he added that he had confidence in the jurors. "This," said Cochran, "has been a very good jury." He shook off the crowd and, flanked by several airport policemen and two bodyguards, at least one of them with the shaved...
...JUDGE. Aside from Judge Lance Ito's lax hand on the whip, which allowed the lawyers to grill witnesses endlessly and argue and reargue points of law, Professor Barbara Babcock of Stanford Law School observes that Judge Ito was often late to arrive and took time to usher celebrities into his chambers. "If you sequester a jury, there should be pressure on everyone to go as fast as you can," she says. "I've never seen a sequestered jury treated this way. I think the message they got was that neither their time nor they were important." Motions should...
Almost unnoticed, however, the deficiencies began to tell when Milosevic, looking for a negotiated solution, withheld his political and material support from the Bosnian Serbs. Military stalemate, debilitating for any army, took a toll as well: in recent months reports of war weariness, low morale and lax discipline cropped up with increasing frequency. Inept officers were drinking when they should have been training their troops, a Serb militia leader told a New York Times reporter last week; the soldiers, he said, were "too stupid to stop an attack by Boy Scouts." Stupid or shrewd, many also saw little point...
Perhaps. But Colombia's sentencing practices are notoriously lax. During the crackdown, the U.S. has offered Colombia only grudging praise, dwelling instead on the subject of punishment. "We look forward," says a State Department official, "to a prison sentence commensurate with the crimes Santacruz has committed, and complete forfeiture of his assets...