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...That is why our legal system does not allow people under 18 to vote, serve on juries or enjoy many of the other privileges and responsibilities of adults. It is also why juries are more and more unwilling to impose death sentences on juvenile offenders and why 31 states prohibit the practice. As we learn more from science and as it converges with legislation and the law, a consensus on this issue is increasingly clear. DENNIS W. ARCHER, PRESIDENT American Bar Association Chicago...
...national diving squad maintains a "don't ask, don't tell" policy on romance. "I don't approve of athletes dating because it can interfere with their concentration," says Zhong Shaozhen, Guo's coach for the past six years. "But especially with the older ones, I can't prohibit them from living their lives." Exacerbating this management challenge, China's one-child policy has produced a generation that tends to be more demanding and individualistic. "Many kids today are very spoiled," says Zhong. "They need more freedom than when I was growing up, and through the Internet they know much...
...must be some way to let a would-be spammer know that you’d like no further communication from them) and certain guidelines have been set regarding the use of misleading subject lines. Some have called the bill inadequate, arguing that it doesn’t actually prohibit anyone from sending out spam, but surely it’s a start: At least one marketer, Phoenix Avatar, which advertised a “hormone product” to hundreds of thousands of unwitting consumers, has been prosecuted under its auspices, on the grounds that, according to the Federal...
Cambridge City Clerk D. Margaret Drury said last week that she had “a lot of sympathy for [the] position” of those cities but was bound to follow the state registrar’s orders to prohibit out-of-state couples from marrying—although the city would not require proof of residency...
...maybe they can discuss why some Ivy schools spend as much as 25 percent of their budget for men’s sports on football and then prohibit the team from competing on a national level...