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The rational, philosophical arguments heard in a Law School classroom have no force against the fear that dominates public and political thinking on crime. The death penalty is a deceptively easy way to fight back, a tactic of last resort at a time when all our other approaches to crime...
Senior House Judiciary Committee Democrat John Conyers of Michigan joined Arab-American and civil rights group in attacking the Clinton Administration's tough anti-terrorism bill as unconstitutional.Acting CIA DirectorWilliam Studeman and other Administration officials countered that the legislation is necessary because Americans have become potential targets of international terrorism...
Hardly anyone these days recommends punching and slapping as a way of settling marital disputes. On the daytime talk shows, audiences go into frenzies of outrage over batterers and any batterees who dawdle before calling the hotline. In California and Massachusetts, Governors who are feverishly cutting programs that aid women...
One of the hardest things to write is a song that has no specific meaning but nonetheless conjures up powerful feelings or ideas. Bluntly themed, big-haired, Bon Jovi-like rock anthems are commonplace. But it takes someone of exceptional talent--R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe, Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan, Prince...
Sophomore Julia E. Starkey attributes to etiquette certain habits which may seem superstitious. As Starkey points out, not saying "God bless you" to someone who sneezes is rude, "even if you know in your rational little mind" that you are not" allowing demons to go into her nose."