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...anecdotal film, it is a disturbing experience. Jarman is a painter and director associated with the beautiful and strinking visual images in films like "The Last of England," "Caravaggio," and "Wittgenstein" (which was recently shown at the Harvard Film Archives). He has stripped his work to a bare minimum. "In the pandemonium of image," he states at one point, "I present you with the universal door of blue...
...Article describes a research study conducted at the Wrentham State School from Mid-December 1961 to mid-April 1962. The article indicates that the research was intended to determine the minimum dose of ordinary iodine needed to reduce contamination of the human body by radioactive iodine. As part of the research, approximately 60 children at the Wrentham State School were orally administered tracer doses of radioactive iodine over a period of weeks...
...report's findings, detailing the futility of minimum mandatory sentencing, are in keeping with the Attorney General's holistic approach to crime prevention which calls for a shift in the nation's law-enforcement focus toward investment in children as a means of preventing crime...
...what end? The politically popular War on Drugs of the '80s has given rise to the far less sexy Cell Crunch of the '90s. Mandatory minimum sentences for minor drug crimes have stuffed the prisons to bursting with nonviolent offenders. By 1990 almost 40 states were under court order to relieve overcrowding by releasing prisoners -- even habitual offenders. Today narcotics offenders occupy 61% of the beds in federal prisons. Meanwhile, 1 in 7 state facilities continues to operate beyond capacity. Ohio leads the pack with a stunning 182% of capacity...
That fear also pervades the African-American community, which despite its concern about crime is resistant to the crime bill. In the view of the influential Congressional Black Caucus, the Senate version of the legislation stresses prison and mandatory minimum sentences too much over social programs -- an imbalance that affects blacks disproportionately. "I went to Jesse Jackson's conference about black-on-black violence, and everybody there was against the crime bill," says an Administration source. "Their vehemence surprised...