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...start of the Hinckley trial, polls showed that 87 percent of the public believed that too many murderers were using the insanity plea to avoid jail. Reagan adviser Edwin Meese III, quoted as saying that reform of the defense would help "rid the streets of the most dangerous people... out there," failed to understand what a recent Harvard Law Review article made clear...
...considered incompetent. He organized a mass campaign to build up a party cadre for the coming parliamentary elections. Sometimes Rajiv's efforts misfired. Many Indians believe he was responsible for the central government's efforts to strengthen its control over the southern state of Andhra Pradesh by getting rid of Chief Minister N.T. Rama Rao, who belonged to an opposition party. But Rama Rao turned out to be stronger than the Congress (I) realized, and the state governor, a Gandhi loyalist, was forced to reinstate him. Whether Rajiv also counseled his mother to order the assault on the Golden Temple...
IRONICALLY, the very enormity of the Republicans' victory could prove the most beneficial aspect of the election for the Democrats: the bludgeoning defeat will rid the party of its stifling ideological stagnation. The Democratic Party finally realizes that it must modify its image and policies if it is to recapture the center at the presidential level...
Hartman explains that if a forming star does not rid itself of its spin efficiently, its rotation increases too rapidly as it contracts. The acceleration produced by the rotation can cancel the force of gravity and prevent the final collapse into a compact normal star...
...Some people talk to each other and some don't, but relations are far from ideal," says Geoffrey M. Cooper, associate professor of pathology at the Medical School. "But its like crime on the streets. How do you get rid of it?" he adds...