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Juvenile violence is rampant in today's society, where school shootings seem to occur every other week. The answer is not stricter sentences to deter offenders, but programs to help troubled youths before they commit crimes. Dangerous juveniles certainly need to be locked up, but these decisions need to be made on a case-by-case basis. These are decisions that should not depend on blanket sentencing laws-individual responses are needed for unique circumstances...
...face of rampant rumors and even a prime-time grilling from Barbara Walters, RICKY MARTIN has gracefully kept his sexuality a well-guarded secret. But the woman rumored to be Martin's girlfriend is ripping off the closet doors to expose Ricky as the greatest Latin lover since Casanova cruised through the 18th century. Prefacing her remarks with "I'm not supposed to talk about this," Ines Misan told the New York Post that Martin "is all man," graciously noting that "on a scale of 1 to 10, I'll give him a 20." As if that didn't clarify...
...taste the eye candy at places like PuJ's themselves. In the past five years, female infidelity has contributed to 30% more divorces nationwide, according to a study conducted by the All-China Women's Federation. Many women applaud the change - even though they may not approve of rampant bed-hopping. "Even a decade ago, women didn't have that much power," says Li Yinhe, a sociologist at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing. "But today, they have the money to buy everything, including sex. It's really no different than being...
Fong also mentioned that, "You're only Asian because you think you are!" That's an awesome mindset, but realistically, it is far more complicated. There are obstacles like prejudice that are still rampant on the planet and especially within the United States, obstacles that overwhelm even the best of us. Nevertheless, I suggest that Fong try mingling with Asian people; he'll realize that they are not so strange...
...Bangaru Laxman, president of the ruling Baharatiya Janata Party, was implicated in a bribery scandal that has exposed rampant graft in India's corridors of power, and was forced to resign. That Laxman's name in the headlines symbolized the depth of the rot in Indian politics, where although bribery has become a way of life, national security had been assumed to be above the dictates of greed - an assumption trashed by the scandal that revealed an extensive web of corruption in weapons procurement...