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...court, the Hague would be setting a strong precedent and a deterrent to other world leaders. It is essential that Milosevic be arrested, given a fair trial and sentenced harshly if found guilty. It would be a further atrocity if a man who attempted genocide were to escape the strictest punishment. Leaving Milosevic to serve a sentence in Serbia, on the premise that all prisons are alike, would fail to send the proper precedent and would risk his release should his supporters eventually return to power...
...calling for gun control, Arenson’s editor’s notebook neglects to mention that California has the strictest gun regulations in the United States. Furthermore, his attempt to play the “race card” is totally inappropriate—the shooter wasn’t even in Arenson’s neighborhood long enough to absorb the alleged culture of racism that Arenson proposes is the root cause of this random act of violence...
...seems to me unthinkable that Adam I. Arenson '00-'01 would use the horrible tragedy in his neighborhood school to advance his "anti-Bush" political agenda (Opinion, "Intolerance and School Violence," March 8). He neglects to mention that California has the strictest gun regulations in the United States, and his attempt to play the "race card" is totally inappropriate--the shooter wasn't even in Arenson's neighborhood long enough to absorb the alleged culture of racism that Arenson proposes is the root cause of this random act of violence...
...while inequities like that go against the strictest Republican philosophy, they'll go a long way to blunting Democratic complaints that "working families" aren't getting the help they need. Politically, that makes the philosophical inconsistencies well worthwhile - and it's catnip to social conservatives who feel social engineering is okeydoke as long as it involves encouraging traditional nuclear families...
...Weinstein and other prosecutors will have plenty of test cases for their theories. An increasing number of western states, once among those with the strictest anti-drug laws, are at the forefront of a state-centered trend toward treatment for addicts - and away from simply handing out jail time. Other states, including New York, are beginning to consider treatment as a viable alternative to prison, not only because treatment programs can be far less expensive than incarceration (for example, the estimated $19,000 it takes to feed and house an Arizona inmate for one year versus $2,000 to dispense...