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...none were sold, according to Aleksei Boiko ’06, who created the service.But concern about the prospect of trading votes for money led the Election Commission (EC) to meet with the three UC presidential candidates late Tuesday night. “No vote selling has occurred as far as the Election Commission can confirm,” said EC chair Michael B. Love ’08. “But then again, we’re getting our information from the student who set up the vote market.”Love added that Boiko?...
...death sentences--involved false confessions. But despite such evidence, few confessions are ever thrown out. According to Richard J. Ofshe, a social psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and an expert in false confessions, only recently have juries been allowed to hear testimony about the phenomenon, which can occur as a result of coercion, exhaustion or mental impairment. The juries in the Norfolk trials were not among those. Many experts say the solution is to require police to videotape all interrogations and confessions of suspects in capital cases, as is the law in Minnesota, Illinois, Alaska and Maine...
...You’re saying, if I hear you correctly, that an agency like INS, assuming they are arbitrary and capricious and even cruel, that the courts would have no jurisdiction because the conduct did not occur on U.S. soil?” the presiding judge, Sterling Johnson Jr., asked the government lawyer...
...young Arab men and women who really want to become integrated into their adopted country. Jayant Gala Brossard, Canada The rage expressed night after night by alienated youth dealt a crushing blow to France's self-image as a model of tolerance and social equality. Could such riots occur in Canada, a nation of immigrants, many of whom face severe economic challenges and are excluded from Canadian society? We must make sure that Canada's educational system imparts a sense of shared values and that there are real equal opportunities for all. Syed Waris Shere Winnipeg Failure in Fallujah? "Looking...
...When political activism does occur on campus it is wishy-washy and bland. Even the most radical elements of the student body, such as the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM), are surprisingly tame by historical standards. Instead of appealing to socialist notions of equality in their quest for higher wages, they couched their stance in terms of cost of living and prevailing wage rates. And in lieu of occupying Mass. Hall, they sent workers’ children to Larry Summers’ house on Halloween to ask for money for their families—only to realize that...