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...announcing the decision, “justice is, and must always be, colorblind”—an impossibility when the use of a drug associated with one community is punished much more harshly than the use of a very similar drug favored by another. Nevertheless, we retain many qualms with national drug and mandatory minimum sentencing laws. Although they stop short of addressing all of them, the Supreme Court and Sentencing Commission decisions do take a positive step by empowering judges to consider every case individually and by helping to close the gap between punishments for power...
...Line Cinema, flush from the surprise megahit status of the first Lord of the Rings film, bought the rights to the Pullman saga - and promptly started fretting about the God problem. Retain the books' central conflict, and stoke the wrath of America's Christian Right. Delete it, and risk alienating Pullman's fan base, which is not so large here as in Britain. (The books had already been slightly redacted in their U.S. editions, which cut passages about Lyra's budding sexuality...
...associate Williams with swing and boogie woogie. Both artists, however, have a remarkable musical flexibility. “The question is, how does Allen justify in playing in both these styles, which seem like an entirely different language?” says Williams. “Allen manages to retain her roots and a sense and knowledge of tradition but also stretches this to create real innovation...
Though the project was also criticized for siphoning funds away from development in the humanities, science professors across the University have said that the building and other ambitious capital projects are necessary if Harvard wants to retain its position as a premier research institute. FITTING...
...Atlantic” has begun to reexamine its connection to the University, hiring more non-alums and focusing on covering current events rather than engaging in more theoretical debates. Yet however the magazine changes, editors and writers promise that “The Atlantic” will always retain the intellectual rigor of the institution where it grew...