Word: mauer
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...part of a fortification some 100 miles (160 km) in length which would eventually consist of a row of reinforced-concrete panels, a second fence and a "death strip" patrolled by snipers. Its architects called the structure an "antifascist protection wall" but Berliners knew it simply as die Mauer - the Wall. It was engineered not to protect, but to imprison...
...guess. It would require an act of Congress to apply the crack-powder parity to mandatory minimums retroactively. The House bill is silent on that issue, and the Senate bill is expected to be as well. That would mean another fight from advocates for a retroactivity amendment. Marc Mauer, executive director of the Sentencing Project, a Washington-based reform group, asks: "If we've been doing something that's unfair for 23 years now, don't we have an obligation to address that unfairness...
...Maggie Mauer, a Miami psychologist volunteering her expertise in trauma, points to a drawing of a body lying in a pool of blood as a good sign. "Last year, he wouldn't even draw anything," she says of the artist, Alejandro, who was drugged and raped by his FARC commander. Alejandro is able to talk about it now but says, "What happened to me, you can't make go away." Next to a drawing of an explosive, he sketches the school bus he now boards every day, and he works on penciling the road to the future. Alejandro dreams...
...whistle of Ken Mauer...
...there was Mauer, in Game 5 of Golden State's stunning first round series upset over the top-seeded Dallas Mavericks, injecting himself into the action by ejecting Golden State forward Stephen Jackson with nine seconds left for that vile, repugnant offense - sarcastic clapping. Jackson, admittedly, is no choir boy: he received a 30-game suspension for his role in the notorious Pistons-Pacers brawl of '04. But the ejection was just silly, and it's only the latest instance of hot-headed NBA officials stealing the limelight by flaunting their power on the court...