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...rules should be the same for prosecutors and defense attorneys: neither should be allowed to offer benefits or threaten harms in order to influence testimony. Imagine the irony if a witness in a criminal case were offered something far more valuable than a job--her freedom--in order to induce her to testify that she was offered a job in exchange for her testimony in a civil case...
...Harvard could not keep the ball safe, and committed three turnovers in the next minute of play, all leading to easy Hartford layups. The lead pushed back to 10, and Harvard would not seriously threaten again...
...genially subversive Franco-Belgian Ma Vie en Rose, the town where Ludo and his family live is cheerily color-coordinated (each garage door is painted a different pastel), but the emotions that the boy's cross-dressing provokes are darker. Everyone goes instantly agog. Wives scold; husbands threaten. Schoolboys turn into bullies, ready to take the natural law into their own hands. The film, directed by Alain Berliner from an original script by Chris vander Stappen, has the scheme of a socially fretful TV movie. Yet at heart, Ma Vie en Rose is a delightful comedy, both in its buoyant...
...fortunately do not face that choice. Tyranny does not threaten us. Our choice is more akin to "Live Free or Submit to Bureaucracy." Our expansive federal bureaucracy is inefficient, but worse than that, it is dishonorable and degrading. It tells Americans that they cannot govern themselves, that they must submit to the rule of others...
There are also more personal concerns. Computer networks allow information to be accessed, accumulated and correlated in ways that threaten privacy as never before. Unseen eyes (of your boss, your neighbor, thousands of marketers) can track what you buy, the things you read and write, where you travel and whom you call. Your kids can download pornographic pictures and chat with strangers...