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Bedford is a torpid southern Indiana stone-quarry hamlet where the politics are dull, racial disputes are rare, and crime is so infrequent that Mayor John Williams boasts that his home has no lock on the front door. But bring up hospital loyalties--an allegiance some Bedford families have solemnly passed down for three generations--and townspeople are likely to get agitated. "You don't get the care you need there," 86-year-old Martha Terrell, a Dunn patient of 50 years' standing, says of the institution she won't patronize. "Whenever anyone new moves to town, I tell them...
Many legal experts are worried that the decision will allow states to lock up all sorts of people. "Today we're dealing with sexual predators," says Steven Shapiro, the legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union. "Who is it tomorrow that we're going to label as abnormal and potentially dangerous?" The dissenting Justices, however, agreed with Thomas that Kansas' criteria for committing someone were valid. Their objection, as expressed by Stephen Breyer in the minority opinion, was that Hendricks has received virtually no treatment even though the law requires it. To Breyer, the state's failure to live...
SEXUAL PREDATORS Forget the 14th Amendment. "Mentally abnormal"? Lock 'em up and throw away...
...after endless months of campaigning, the 1996 election has drawn to a close. For those of you are feeling withdrawal from a lack of discussion of bridges, villages and "whatever"--never fear. Disappointed with Tuesday's results? Bide your time. Voters of New Hampshire: lock your doors! After all, its only 1,461 days until the presidential election...
...hard to prevent a circus, Judge Richard Matsch was not about to preside over a lynching--or risk seeing the biggest case of his career reversed on appeal. So on Wednesday, with prosecutors ready to explain in grisly detail why Timothy McVeigh deserves death, Matsch ordered the jurors to lock away their feelings and remain "free from the influence of passion." He ruled that government evidence designed to stir those emotions--wedding portraits, poetry, the testimony of a boy who missed his mom--would all be inadmissible...