Word: proof
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...column. Well, maybe not. It is easy enough to mock the idea of hate crimes ("So where are the love crimes?"). Hate-crime legislation, critics say, is codified redundancy, unnecessary complication for real-world courtrooms already saddled with the heavy demands of proof. As Judge Stang says, you don't want to send hate off to the forensic lab to prove what kind it is. Unlike intent, he says, motive isn't a separate element of a crime. It simply provides narrative to sway a jury or give plot to a novel...
...offscreen witchiness, Doherty reports that with 14-to-18-hour days on the set, she has little time for anything but sleep. "I just go home," she says--more proof that the '90s are all but over...
Krentz is not alone. Scientists estimate that 10 million Americans suffer from seasonal depression and 25 million more develop milder versions. But there's never been definitive proof that treatment with very bright lights (10,000 lux, or 20 times as bright as your office lights) makes a difference. After all, it's hard to do a double-blind test when the subjects can see for themselves whether or not the light is on. That's why nobody has ever separated the real effects of light therapy from placebo effects...
...sparing the nation months of divisive impeachment hearings, Richard Nixon put the good of America before his personal interests. Bill Clinton's refusal to take the honorable course and resign is proof that Clinton loves Clinton more than Clinton loves America. SHALOM DINERSTEIN New York City...
Take me to your section leader. If grad students have always seemed like aliens to you, but you still wanted concrete proof, join them as they watch cinema dealing with their own kind. The Dudley House Film series continues tonight as the classic 1950s sci-fi movies Forbidden Planet and The Day the Earth Stood Still play on a big-screen TV. Forbidden Planet, 6 p.m; The Day the Earth Stood Still, 8 p.m., Lehman Hall, Graduate Student Lounge. FREE...