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...offline events. Obama's online fund-raising eclipsed the $100 million mark in the first three months of the year, and his YouTube videos have been viewed 37 million times, a figure that would make any television executive weep. "It is a seismic change," says Michael Malbin, the executive direc tor of the Campaign Finance Institute. "This year's donors are not just givers. They are doers...
...young thugs named Kazle Anthony and Stephen Batten forced three butchers into a walk-in icebox, robbed them of $3,500, shot each of them in the head twice, and finished them off with meat cleavers. After a jury convicted them of first-degree murder, Justice David L. Malbin called the killers' crime "one of the most atrocious in this country...
Shortly before the thugs were tried, however, New York had abolished the death penalty for all but police killers. As a result, Justice Malbin sentenced the killers to life imprisonment-then angrily noted that they will be eligible for parole in 26½ years. Worse, said Malbin, "there is a paradox in the law": had their victims lived, the men could each have been handed 120 years in consecutive sentences for assault and robbery-and not been eligible for parole for 40 years. "I'm not a tough guy," said the judge, "but when a man kills three people...
Criminal-law experts have faulted Malbin for disregarding the fact that lifers are paroled by parole boards only if they deserve it. Under a forthcoming (1967) change in New York law, the critics added, thugs whose victims survive would be eligible for parole in 8½ rather than 40 years. Despite such objections, though, Malbin's basic point is sound; across the country, sentencing is an illogical mess...
...Voice of Firestone (ABC, 10-10:30 p.m.). Metropolitan Opera Soprano Elaine Malbin, Tenor Sandor Kenya, Baritone William Warfield...