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Sales wasn't the only one second-guessing. If Singleton had committed any serious crimes in Florida before last week, he wasn't caught. Police records indicate shoplifting charges. But the absence of intervening atrocities between bookend acts of horror does not lessen the impression that the California picketers were justified and the tolerant Orient Parkers tragically naive. In 1987 Singleton's parole led to passage of California's "Singleton bill," which carries a 25-years-to-life sentence with possible parole for aggravated mayhem. In fact, a spokesman for the state attorney general's office estimates that subsequent toughening...
Pennsylvania (2-2, 6-10) and Princeton (2-2, 3-13) both remain three games off the Crimson pace, with a chance to lessen that gap with games at Harvard and Dartmouth this weekend...
...victim in the affair of Amy Grossberg and Brian Peterson Jr. [SOCIETY, Dec. 2]. The two young parents were victims as well. We can speculate about what was going through their minds and how the two 18-year-olds let their newborn child die. However, this tragedy does not lessen the fact that society failed them in a major way. For some reason these two college freshmen from affluent backgrounds felt that they had no one to turn to--not their parents, their friends, professors or counselors. This tragedy should remind us of the fragile state of all American youth...
Fate sometimes provides by taking away. For six years, Zoran Djindjic backed nearly every idea, every group and every trend that might lessen the absolute hold on power enjoyed by his country's imperious, corrupt and autocratic President, Slobodan Milosevic. But the despotic leader stood unbowed and seemingly unconquerable. Relentless in his quest, Djindjic decided to run for mayor of Serbia's capital, Belgrade. Three weeks ago, to the astonishment of many observers, he won. Then, to no one's real surprise, Milosevic reacted to his party's stunning defeat by ordering the courts to annul the election, in which...
...masculinized in order to exhibit qualities of assertion and aggressiveness. No, we are not sending off Madeleine Albright to challenge Saddam Hussein to a wrestling match, but we are asking her to help us decide at what times we should wrestle. How tough to be in Bosnia? How to lessen the never-ending tensions of the Middle East? How to confront the emergence of China? How often should the U.S. come to the rescue of struggling young democracies? We are handing over a significant portion of power to a woman--asking her to provide insight and judgment on matters which...