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...While some attorneys, and victims of the Enron scandal, argue that letting Lay - even in death - off the hook is a miscarriage of justice, others say the proposal is mean-spirited. "It's a disguised attempt to punish Lay further - not to help crime victims," says attorney Joel Androphy, author of the legal text White Collar Crime. "It has no global purpose other than being vindictive." Even though the criminal case is over, Androphy points out, Enron victims will still be compensated, because Lay's estate will have to pay any civil judgments. He argues that the proposed law sends...
...Behind the move is another security issue: job security for incumbents on the Hill. Conservative voters are furious about the porous U.S.-Mexico border. And the fears that an enraged Hispanic population would punish the GOP for taking what some called anti-Hispanic positions on tightening border enforcement are long gone. "We haven't seen any empirical support for that," says one senior GOP aide. The aide points to close races around the country where Democrats are falling into line behind a border-security-first approach, and a recent AP survey that showed no significant new voter registration in cities...
Patrick Clawson, deputy director for research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a critic of Khatami, said that even though the former president was not directly involved in the event, many wonder whether he could have done more to punish those responsible...
...child holding out a piece of paper for her to sign. "It's because I'm a bobble head, dude," she explains after giving a boy an autograph. "I have a cartoon-character voice, I've got a lot of energy, and they know I'm not going to punish them." Rachael Ray is our nation's kindergarten teacher...
...into words is part of what turned him into a literary hero in Africa - and made Moi very nervous. Ngugi first started writing in the '60s, under his original name, James Ngugi, and in English: the leftover colonial language still revered in parts of today's Africa, where schools punish students for speaking African languages. Pushing aside the influences of his childhood curriculum - William Wordsworth, Jane Austen, T.S. Eliot - he instead dipped into Africa's storytelling history. "The tradition from which I came was that of the realism of the 19th-century English novel," he says. "It was very limiting...