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So for judges at least, it is possible that daughters don't know best. But perhaps even lawmakers should think twice about letting personal circumstances inform their making of public policy. California's three-strikes law, for instance, didn't emerge from a reasoned debate over the wisdom of condemning...
This civic spirit of Bombay is not well understood by the rest of the world. The week before the blasts, Reader's Digest came out with a specious, culturally biased survey declaring that Bombay was the world's rudest city?and the politest was that famed citadel of courtesy, New...
Even more revealing than who gets busted is that the Department of Justice doesn't seem particularly concerned about how it convicts those it arrests. The Attorney General's office trumpets 218 guilty pleas, but admits that in many cases those are for minor immigration offenses that were uncovered during...
High schoolers, predictably, tend to agree with that view. "Give students an opportunity to police themselves," says Nathan Graf, 18, a senior at Cumberland Valley High School in Mechanicsburg, Pa., who got two-thirds of his classmates to sign a petition against a new policy of random Breathalyzer tests at...
What we have in this film, essentially, is a portrait of man hard at work (at age 77 incidentally), and that, these days, is a good (and rare) thing. Ask a man what he does and how he obsessively does it and you almost invariably get a fascinating document. For...