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...example, funnels vast sums of money into the propaganda outlets of the Supreme Islamic Council, which praises Nasser almost as much as God. But favors given could be favors withheld when they no longer fulfill a national purpose. Islamic nation-states increasingly take their ideas and institutions-such as penal codes and constitutions-from the secular experience of the East and West, rather than the Shariah (religious...
...surprisingly, a language so silently eloquent teems with insulting gestures and yowls for legal relief. Indeed, the Italian penal code provides up to six months' imprisonment for "whosoever offends the honor or decorum of a person who is present," a stiffer rap if several persons are present, and up to three years' imprisonment for visual insults tossed at Italy's President, Prime Minister, Senators, armed forces or the Pope...
During his first term in office, Governor Volpe purportedly turned his attention to the state's county correctional system. Tainted with scandal, inefficient, poorly staffed, costly beyond belief, the county penal institutions had the hard-earned distinction of being one of the most embarrassing aspects of Massachusetts. In what was thought to be a genuine attempt to correct this situation, Governor Volpe convened a special commission consisting of eleven of the most respected men in the Commonwealth to study the county system of correction...
...impediments didn't exist. When the state wouldn't give him enough money for psychiatrists, he and his staff borrowed highly qualified staff members from the Law-Medicine Institute of Boston University. Furthemore, skilled medical doctors about to become licensed psychiatrists may now fulfill their internship requirements in state penal institutions providing valuable experience for them and skilled assistance for the inmates...
...willingness to make this conscientious journey into the past. A doubting world has long since been convinced of the determination of most West Germans to redress the evil of Nazidom. Nevertheless, a fear remains that many of Hitler's villains may go scot-free.* Under the German penal code, the statute of limitation for murder runs out after 20 years. That means that no further prosecution of Nazi killers can be instituted after May 8, 1965, or 20 years after V-E day, the first date on which prosecutions were theoretically possible. What seems unusual to U.S. lawyers...