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...Court officially began hearing open arguments for the 2004-2005 term on Oct. 4, and their docket is particularly interesting. Two of the most important cases this year are Roper v. Simmons and Johnson v. California. The first involves the highly controversial issue of juvenile execution, and thus American standards of decency in the criminal system; the second considers the legitimacy of racial segregation in prisons. Both have the potential to set profound precedents likely to have ramifications for policy at home and perceptions abroad, yet neither has garnered the attention it deserves...
...Supreme Court has already received briefs regarding the case from the American Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association, 48 different countries, and more than 12 Nobel Prize Winners. However, media coverage of Roper v. Simmons, and public awareness of the issue at stake, is virtually nowhere to be found. This case has the potential to change the way America’s judicial system is perceived in the international community. But while the world turns to look at us, we seem to be turning away...
Watchdog groups, on the other hand, say some of the changes imposed by Sox are toothless. When Congress was drafting the law, "the accounting firms worked hard to minimize its scope," says Barbara Roper of the Consumer Federation of America. Unlike the mutual-fund and securities industries, she says, "the accounting profession never really acknowledged that there was a serious problem with the way it did business...
...DIED. ALAN BULLOCK, 89, historian who wrote the 1952 best-selling biography Hitler: A Study in Tyranny; in Oxfordshire, England. Bullock and fellow Oxford historians A.J.P. Taylor and Hugh Trevor-Roper formed a triumvirate of gifted scholars whose efforts to understand the turmoil of the 20th century widely influenced modern thought. After spending World War II as a BBC correspondent, Bullock produced his Hitler biography from a detailed review of the minutes of the Nuremberg trials. He was modest about his talents. "I couldn't write great literature," he said, "but I could do a workmanlike job as a historian...
When one undergraduate walked by and cracked a joke about one of the protester’s Sept. 11 sign, Phelps-Roper said the student’s sarcasm indicated that her message had gotten through...