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...violates the Eighth Amendment's ban on "cruel and unusual punishments." Jerry Helm, 36, was convicted in 1979 in South Dakota of passing a bad check for $100. The crime ordinarily carries a maximum sentence of five years and a fine of $5,000. But Helm had six prior felony convictions (three for burglary, one for grand larceny, one for obtaining money under false pretenses and one for drunk driving), so he was sentenced under a repeat-offender statute. The judge imposed the maximum punishment allowable, life imprisonment without possibility of parole...
Understandably, the denominations had trouble pinning down what they actually believed in. Over the years, they issued a series of increasingly murky declarations about their theology. Prior to the merger of the two denominations in 1961 to form the Unitarian Universalist Association, the Universalists professed a faith in a loving God and in Jesus as a spiritual (although not a divine) leader, while the Unitarians honored the "religion which Jesus taught 'as love to God and love to man.' " A compromise hammered out during the merger eliminated the name of Jesus from the association's statement...
Harvard has contended that all Harvard workers--both at the Boston Medical Area and the Cambridge campus--should be considered as a single unit. In allowing the two prior elections, however, the NLRB has sided with District 65, concluding that the Medical Area--including the Dental School, Med School, and School of Public Health--is an appropriate unit because of its geographical separation from the remainder of the University...
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...agency to ensure that no secrets crept into print in the writings of former agents. It was Turner who was responsible for the civil prosecution of Frank W. Snepp, whose 1977 book, Decent Interval, a critical study of the agency's role in Viet Nam, was published without prior CIA review, in violation of his contract with the agency. In February 1980, the Supreme Court ordered Snepp to hand over profits from his book to the Government. So far, that ruling has cost Snepp nearly $200,000 in forgone royalties...