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...past, that may be most damaging to him now in this season of political reinvention, say people who have worked closely with the Vice President. While Bush has shown an ability to reverse himself in the face of heavy headwinds, suddenly embracing the 9/11 commission or campaign-finance reform, Cheney takes pride in not backing down. In March 2004, when Cheney was about to walk onstage to deliver his first formal excoriation of Senator John Kerry as being soft on Saddam, a frantic aide telephoned to urge him to tone it down. A suicide car bomber had just torn...
Allen St. Pierre, a spokesman for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, says that blacks are three times as likely to be arrested over marijuana in the United States, even though actual use of the drug is just as common, he says, in wealthier white demographics like Cambridge...
...Even if you don’t spend one day in prison, a conviction on a drug charge is the equivalent to a life-long sentence,” wrote Scarlett Swerdlow, the executive director of drug law reform group Students for Sensible Drug Policy, in an e-mail. “Youth can forget an education [with] a conviction on a drug charge—no matter the nature or number of the offense. You could have made a mistake twenty years ago, but are ready to turn your life around, only to find that the national government...
...concrete relationship with the Office of Student Activities,” said UC President Matthew J. Glazer ’06, who added that the SEC chair would sit on the College’s committee on undergraduate life and work closely with University Hall. Glazer maintained that CLC reform had been on his radar screen for some time. “This is something that has been the UC’s agenda for over a year now,” said Glazer. Some council members have expressed concern that CLC members—who are full members...
...Gorazde, one of the best books on the Bosnian war. Not only do those books discuss serious subjects, but the images hone the message. In North Korea, photographers are severely restricted, and journalists use their limited access to poke tentatively at big issues like nuclear weapons, famines and economic reform. But Delisle, through the simple use of charcoal, ink and dialogue bubbles, captures aspects of life in North Korea that tend to elude observers in other media. Like light. Due to severe electrical shortages, Pyongyang makes do with dim lightbulbs and minimal streetlights. That's tough to capture in photographs...