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...want to underline that the situation in the country has been duly controlled to guarantee the peace and tranquility that the state should assure for its citizens," said a statement released by Justice and Interior Minister Olmedo Miranda...
...Hooch, the only witness to his former owner's murder, in protective custody. As the movie's none-too-ambitious mystery plot unfolds, it is Hooch, ferociously loyal to both his former master and his new one, who does most of the protecting. He's obviously never heard of Miranda rights. Not that he is a one-note character: he introduces Turner to romance with the local veterinarian (Mare Winningham), and in moments of repose he has a watchful sobriety that becomes a comment on the human propensity to rush around needlessly. If food, sex or loyalty...
...dramatic decisions were written by Justices Antonin Scalia and Sandra Day O'Connor, who were joined by Justices Byron White and Anthony Kennedy and Chief Justice William Rehnquist. The rulings, together with a decision holding that police need not use the "exact form" of the Miranda warnings to inform arrested suspects of their rights, left little doubt that the court's tough law-and-order majority is firmly entrenched. "The days of criminals' getting off on technicalities are over," declared Daniel Popeo, head of the conservative Washington Legal Foundation, surveying the overall rightward drift of the Rehnquist Court's criminal...
Zachary, who concentrates in East Asian Studies and Economics and plays on the varsity baseball team, says his mother always wanted him to go to Harvard, where she attended law school in the early 1960s. Hope's other child, Miranda, was accepted early to Harvard this year and considers it her first choice, he adds...
...Regardless of whether we have a Republican president, as long as we have a democratic Congress, we are all right," Miranda said...