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...having consensual oral sex with his underage girlfriend (he was 17, she was 15), the state legislature amended Georgia's child-protection act to reduce the offense to a misdemeanor. But Genarlow remains in jail after 28 months because lawmakers did not make the change retroactive. Jimmy Carter spoke out for leniency. On June 11, a judge ordered Genarlow released, citing a "grave miscarriage of justice." His mother called it a miracle. But still he sits in jail, since the state attorney general vows to appeal, saying the judge went...
...former Colorado Republican Congressman Bob Beauprez, who spoke on behalf of the Rocky Flats workers, says Congress did try to fix things. Beauprez grew up near Rocky Flats and knew families with three generations of Rocky Flats workers. He called the workers "patriots." He said, "We won that [cold] war. And knowing full well there was risk inherent, they did their jobs.... Democrats and Republicans in Congress - all representatives of the taxpayers - said, 'Take care of these people.' 'Don't submit these people to endless torture. These people...
...Soviet-backed regime, and in one document his handlers complain that he never gave them anything of value. With Kapuscinski unavailable for comment, the spying allegations will remain a cloud over his career. But he was acutely aware of his journalistic critics and, though he never confessed to inaccuracy, spoke of pursuing a truth that transcended mere facts. "There are so many complaints," he once said. "Kapuscinski never mentions dates, Kapuscinski never gives us the name of the minister, he has forgotten the order of events. All that, of course, is exactly what I avoid. If those are the questions...
...World War II is mostly gone. The generation that directly heard tell of World War II from its parents is moving on. We have exhausted, so to speak, the moral capital of that war. Now we face challenges almost as daunting as those confronting the nation when Lincoln spoke. The perpetuation of freedom in the world is no more certain today than was the perpetuation of our free institutions then. Of course, we have the example of Lincoln to guide us. And Ferguson's wry and sardonic account of the ways we remember him is heartening and even inspiring, almost...
...Keohane, the past president of Duke University and Wellesley College, says that as a political scientist, she was thrilled to connect with more than 300 years of institutional leadership, but said that the incident spoke volumes about Harvard governance...