Word: legalism
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...attorneys representing the accused, appeared to have violated the policies of Durham Police Department in conducting a lineup, and ultimately pursued a case rife with holes and hearsay, an abject abuse of the district attorney’s fundamental task of pursuing justice and justice alone. The American legal system, convoluted though it may be, is bound at its axis to the idea of finding and reaching justice while taking into account the lives and livelihoods of both accuser and accused. The Duke lacrosse players who were named saw a raucous media circus form up around them, and their identities...
...facts. Nearly four years into launching our deterrence campaign from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), there likely are few college students out there who don’t know that downloading from unauthorized peer-to-peer (P2P) systems is illegal. Moreover, these days there are also innovative legal online music services like Ruckus, which offers free and legal music to any college student in the country...
...doesn't necessarily fly for the United States: "There's really only one good use for the coca leaf in economic terms, and that's cocaine," the U.S. ambassador to Bolivia, Philip Goldberg, told the Associated Press late last year. Bolivians denounce this stance as hypocritical, since the largest legal market for coca leaves is actually the United States...
...growers and a Morales campaign promise, but an idea the U.S. has criticized. This week, Morales is sending in soldiers to help coca growers decrease their cultivation. And despite touting mass coca industrialization, the three tea factories are the only project under way, and even these still await full legal approval...
...Morales' reticence is not surprising. In December, the U.S. cut military aid by 25% - from $45 million to $33 million - just days after he announced his desire to increase the legal quote of coca grown in Bolivia. It was a clear warning that divergence from set eradication goals jeopardizes tens of millions of dollars in aid and trade preferences the U.S. gives Bolivia...