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WITH VICTORY IN THE WAR ON DRUGS NOWHERE IN sight and prison populations bulging, the 1980s' lock-'em-up approach to drug crimes has come under increasing attack. Now Attorney General Janet Reno says she too wants to reconsider the harsh mandatory sentences legislated by drug-war hawks during the Reagan-Bush era. Reno announced a sweeping review of federal drug- punishment policies to determine if packing prisons with small-time offenders -- say, sentencing a 19-year-old courier to five years for transporting as little as five grams of crack -- makes sense or justice...
...Reno, who is a 1963 graduate of the Law School, was invited by the graduating students' Class Committee...
...committee invited Reno after surveying members of the class. Reno was the only speaker the class invited...
...Harvard Law School is proud to claim Janet Reno as one of our graduates," said Dean Robert C. Clark...
...Reno will be only the third Commencement Speaker in the Law School's history. The custom began...