Word: murder
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...million acres) reservation extending south from the Arctic refuge. Today they have little cash, but Trimble Gilbert, their newly elected chief, believes that history has vindicated their choice. "Money is not really good for native peoples," he says. "Here you don't see drugs and alcohol, or suicide and ^ murder. Here people walk around proud that we have our land...
Consider, too, Bush's decisions surrounding the import of automatic weapons. Again, drug shootings had become a major public issue, with Washington--Bush's place of residence--making headlines as the nation's murder capital. Bush balked on using the issue as an opportunity to make a public stand, and only issued his mediocre response--a temporary ban on some automatic weapons after considerable public uproar...
That's not surprising. While watching the Geogetown-Illinois basketball game in a fraternity common room, the camera panned across Black faces on the Georgetown bench. One member yelled out "Twenty years for armed robbery, 25 for murder, 10 for rape..." to raucous laughter from the brothers...
...variety of labels used to describe abortionrun the gamut from "reproductive freedom" to"murder." And the terms reflect the intensity ofemotions underlying the debate over legalabortion. Partisans of both sides have invoked andinterpreted the civil liberty and human rightsaspects of the issue, and both use the FirstAmendment in amici curiae, or "friends ofthe court" briefs on both sides...
Even so, prosecutors were determined to keep Adams in jail, discounting Harris' statements as the rantings of a condemned man. (Harris is on death row for a 1985 murder.) But on March 1, an appellate court unanimously threw out Adams' conviction, finding that the state was guilty of suppressing evidence favorable to Adams, deceiving the trial court and knowingly using perjured testimony...