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...criminal justice system cannot handle ordinary crime, there is very frequently a call to have generals handle it instead," Heymann says. "And police have a tendency to execute and punish on their...
...rocked El Salvador in 1989? And who participated in the subsequent cover-up? Although a Salvadoran court last week held two army officers responsible for the murders and acquitted seven lower-ranking soldiers, the answers to those questions may never be resolved. With the government under U.S. pressure to punish the perpetrators, the convictions of a colonel and a lieutenant capped a 20-month investigation and three-day trial. But suspicions linger that the two officers may be fall guys for higher-ranking officers who plotted the predawn massacre...
...publishers claim the statue is a violation of Hill's First Amendment rights, and the publisher is not alone in its battle. Arthur Eisenberg, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), states, "Under the First Amendment, you cannot punish speech just because you don't like the speaker, which this law does. Henry Hill wouldn't have told his story if he didn't hope to get paid; it would have been a significant loss to our society if his account hadn't been told." The ACLU filed a brief in support of Simon & Schuster...
...president responds compassionately but firmly. "They're saying they want to be preserved from the inconvenience of the recession, and I don't blame them." But an income tax increase, he goes on, "would punish most of all the people they claim to represent" by driving businesses which make up the revenue base to other nations with lower taxes...
...workers' health-care costs, society cannot object if those companies intrude on employee life-styles. But as Lewis Maltby of the A.C.L.U. notes, the question then becomes, Where do you draw the line? It is generally legal for a company to declare its workplace a smoke-free environment and punish violaters. How, though, can a corporation or government agency demand that employees like Bone refrain from lighting up away from work, especially since smoking itself is not a crime? High cholesterol levels can lead to heart disease and other health problems. But what right does an employer have to demand...