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...morality play. “Remember that the function of a jury is to find the truth,” the Handbook remonstrated, and I imagined myself a female, chin-deficient version of the young Fonda who in 12 Angry Men dissuades his 11 fellow jurors from making an unfair murder conviction. Like a young Fonda, I would weigh the evidence with a care that would make up for inadequate public defenders. Like a young Henry Fonda I would stalk over to fellow jurors playing tic-tac-toe, roar “This isn’t a game...
...argument for the death penalty, in the commission's view, was that it provided solace to some of the victim's relatives. "Until the commission," says Turow, "I didn't really understand what it means for some twisted creep to change your life forever." But the mounting evidence of unfair application of the ultimate penalty to minorities, along with sloppy defense counsels, prejudiced juries and forensic errors, finally persuaded Turow and most of his colleagues that the present system was not fixable...
There are two contentions to Dershowitz’s argument: First, that singling out Israel rather than any other nation in the region for criticism using the divestment petition (and hence, delegitimization) is unfair. And second, delegitimizing the Jewish state is anti-Semitic in effect...
...other words, if for the above reasons one does not accept a definitional linkage between Israel and Jews, it is difficult to see how any criticism of Israel, even if unfair, can be viewed as being anti-Semitic in effect. Unless, of course, as Dershowitz must clearly believe, all those who are not Zionist are “effectively” anti-Semitic. This redefinition of anti-Semitism would be very convenient for supporters of Israel...
Charging students for leaving their items in an uninsured basement seems unfair at best and greedy at worst. There would be no actual improvement in storage service, and items would be just as susceptible to theft as they are now. The proposal to increase the eligibility from 100 miles to 200 miles is similarly unfair. Driving one’s belongings to a nearby suburb in two trips during the day is very different from having to make the four-hour trip all the way to New York or having to bear the expense of hiring a van. This...