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The Senate began debate on this issue earlier this month, but many senators are hesitant about doing away with 50 years of labor law, promoting strikes and tipping the scales too far in favor of strikers. A filibuster of the striker replacement act, which seems more and more likely with...
The Washington State A.C.L.U.'s Jerry Sheehan says the law "generated exceedingly dangerous vigilante conduct ((and)) is likely to be found unconstitutional." Still, mass culture and some experts view violent sex offenders as irredeemable monsters. Rutgers University law professor emeritus Alexander D. Brooks thinks that longer sentences should reflect this...
Maria Gallardo believes the scales have been tipped enough against her younger brother. Beyond maintaining that he was "railroaded" into his 1991 guilty plea, she says of his violent drawings and writings, "He's plagued by nightmares. I was too, for a long time. He would write down the dream...
ILM created its dinosaurs inside out: a simplified skeleton, then skin covering, then coloration, then the fine tuning with wrinkles, scales, dirt. "You see skin moving over bones and over muscles," says ILM's Dennis Muren, who directed the project. "When the brachiosaurus walks, the weight of its chest makes...
To decide whether to bring Aeschylus of Euripedes to Athens, Dionysius stages a competition to "weight" the merits of their poetry. Many had puns ensue. The clever Euripedes is too "light;" the more philosophical Aeschylus literally tips the scales with the heavy line: "Chariot on chariot, corpse on corpse was...