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...lenient treatment at the hands of Italian authorities contrasts sharply with that of U.S. Actor William Berger (TIME, April 5), who was held for almost eight months before trial after Italian police raided a party at his rented villa and found nine-tenths of one gram of marijuana. He was acquitted, but his wife, who was also held-though never charged -in connection with the case, died in prison...
When Christians first began spreading their strange new doctrines in 1st century Jerusalem, Rabbi Gamaliel urged the Jews to be lenient and to avoid accusing them of heresy. If the new sect was doing God's will, he reasoned, men could not stop them (Acts 5:34). When Christians held power in the Middle Ages, they often ignored this common-sense approach. Heresy became an all-too-common crime punishable by all-too-painful penalties...
...them. West Germany's constitution prohibits the extradition of its own citizens. The 1954 accord between the Allies and Bonn prohibits the retrial in Germany of a war criminal if he has already been convicted in a French, British or U.S. court. That provision was designed to prevent lenient German judges from retrying war criminals after Allied courts had convicted them, and giving them lighter sentences. Ironically, the provision has served to protect those who were tried in absentia in Allied courts but then surfaced after 1955, when West Germany regained its sovereignty. As a result of the Lammerding...
Industry's problem is almost as complex as an ecosystem. Because many environmental standards differ from state to state, industries in lenient states have an economic edge over competitors in tough states?and thus an incentive to resist pollution abatement. If they close polluting plants, moreover, they throw employees out of work, and employment is part of a corporation's social responsibility. Beyond this is the problem of who shall pay for anti-pollution devices. Ultimately the consumer, of course, but how much will he accept...
...Such a step, he said, besides being "counter to the intellectual and social evolution of Harvard College," might discourage gifts to the similarly pressed Harvard College Fund. "Some donors have criticized Harvard for what they feel to be either excessively lenient or harsh responses to contemporary issues; few donors are unsympathetic to our scholarship program which allows the admission and support of the best candidates," Peterson said...