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...with 120 affiliated groups, has taken no stance. Some members argue that if Americans want the death penalty, they should face the consequences of their action squarely. If they cannot bear the thought of watching public executions, then they may realize that it does not make moral sense to permit executions in private either. Other death-penalty opponents maintain that whatever the potential gains, televised executions are too ghoulish to consider. Says Donald Gillmor, professor of media ethics at the University of Minnesota: "I don't like our return to an era of public hanging...
When it became clear that a number of students were remaining beyond 4:00 p.m. and refusing to permit access to Law School offices, the police returned for their second, and last, visit, at 4:30 p.m., and took still photographs of those students. Your characterization of these events--that "police officers armed with still and video cameras repeatedly swept through the crowd"--is more than a little misleading...
...physics that says time cannot run backward. Einstein's equations of motion work equally well, mathematically, when the direction of time is reversed. Yet no one has ever been able to travel back in time. Theoretical physicists find the situation intriguing: if the laws that govern nature really permit time reversal, there should somehow be a way to achieve it. Now a theorist at Princeton University has come up with a way that travel into the past might, in principle, be accomplished, even if it may not be practical...
...time since Gorbachev came to power," says a senior U.S. official. Gorbachev almost confirms that himself. He said last month that the armed forces must have "everything necessary to guarantee the security of the state and the preservation of peace." He and his colleagues, he said, "will not permit any underestimation of the role of the armed forces...
...course, Iraq cannot begin to chip away at its reparations bill until it starts earning income again. Baghdad has asked the U.N. Sanctions Committee, which includes representatives of each of the 15 Security Council members, to unfreeze $1 billion in Iraqi assets overseas and to permit the export of $1 billion worth of Iraqi oil. The government says it must have the money to purchase food and other essentials. But the U.S. and Britain remain skeptical, $ insisting that Iraq more clearly demonstrate its needs. They are trying to hold the lid on sanctions to force Iraq's compliance with...