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...solution to the risk of tragedies like Schindler's murder does not lie in continuing to legally sanction institutional bigotry. What is needed is a dramatic effort to overhaul attitudes. The end of anti-gay intolerance will not come with an executive order from the president, nor will it result from Senate panel hearings. It will occur only over a long period of time, just as racism is still being slowly eradicated from our social institutions...
...corners of the department. U.S. Attorneys, who as presidential appointees can operate independently of the Attorney General, have been repeatedly accused of ethics violations. Among them: misleading grand juries, withholding and tainting evidence and entrapping defendants. Department overseers complain that prosecutors break the rules without fear of sanction. It is "the arrogance at the department that's so dangerous. Some of the same people who are responsible for dispensing justice believe they themselves are above the law," says Representative Robert Wise, Democrat, of West Virginia, who used to head the House Subcommittee on Government Information, Justice and Agriculture...
...interview shortly after she took office in November, General Counsel Margaret H. Marshall, Ryan's boss, said she was unfamiliar with Wiseman's investigation. She called a sanction of Ryan on the grounds of prosecutorial misconduct "such a hypothetical outcome that it would be irresponsible for me to comment...
Prepared in the mid-1980s and suppressed by the authorities, the documents reveal that cannibalism was widely practiced in the late '60s in the Guangxi Autonomous Region in southern China. Acting without the sanction of national party authorities, the documents reveal, several party leaders in Guangxi incited followers to kill "class enemies" and then eat their flesh in public ceremonies. Zheng also conducted his own extensive investigation into the reports of cannibalism. He says he interviewed relatives of victims and spoke with dozens of people who confessed to having eaten human flesh. He insists that his case is persuasive...
Sister Mary Karen Powers of St. Paul's Catholic Church, the Harvard-Radcliffe parish, said the group is not likely to enter the ranks of the Ministry inthe near future, a step it would have to take inorder to gain sanction for campus recruiting...