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...this is providing legal traction for constitutional lawyers. The most obvious point of attack is the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. One suit involving prisoners in a Wisconsin supermax has led to rulings requiring that mentally ill inmates be kept out of such facilities. The state is challenging the decisions, and arguments will be heard in February, but at least six other states have fought similar suits, and all of them have failed. "So far, the prisoners are batting a thousand on the issue of mentally ill inmates," says David Fathi, a senior staff counsel with...
...most obvious victim was U.S. diplomatic credibility, especially on the subject of dealing with terrorist regimes. Washington has been critical of some allies for failing to support U.S. measures against state-sponsored terrorism, notably the American bombing raids on Libya last April. In light of Reagan's willingness to trade weapons for Iranian help in securing the release of U.S. hostages, it will be more difficult to ask for cooperation in the future. Editorialized Bonn's General-Anzeiger: "It will take a long time before the leading power in the West can credibly champion the stringency of joint standards...
...Children on the TV, she answers her mobile phone. It's the Tupperware lady, pressing to come by and get $5 Diana owes her. Diana asks, "Do you know where I live?" She repeats the question to the caller and adds, finally, "Cabrini-Green." There is an obvious break in the conversation. "O.K.," says Diana, smiling a little, as if she had been through this a million times before, "I'll meet you at school." An alarmed policeman who spotted a rare white visitor walking in the project insisted that he drive her a block to her destination...
...dead body or a crime, and then 300 pages later, everything is explained, and you're done. But as soon as I started pressing at the subject a little, the connections were just so many, and they just sprang up. What I mean by that is the sort of obvious connections between organized crime and politics in Bombay and in the country at large...
...David Cameron: I don't know whether it's a new style. To me it's just obvious. If you've got three children under 5 and you want to be a good father and be there when they're growing up, you've got to make time. So that means you need strict rules about when politics stops and family starts. I try to do that...