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...Civil Rights Commission ruling should help prod the parties toward a showdown. The commission voted 6 to 2 against percentage admissions along party lines. The two Republican members said the verdict was politically motivated - the panel's Democratic chairwoman, Mary Frances Berry, has contributed to Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign, and, they imply, would like to damage George W. Bush's credibility...
...Even to hard-core, pro-army, Yemen-hating moviegoers the film's conclusion will not make sense. Hero or not, the actual evidence and the court case that is portrayed leads no one to expect or rejoice at a verdict of "innocent." Jones' character is not a particularly good lawyer-moreover, the case clearly doesn't hold water against the government's evidence-lying witnesses...
...verdict not only vindicates Lipstadt's charges against Irving, but also clears the decks for more scholarly discussion about the Holocaust in contemporary social and political discourse. Scholars such as Dr. Peter Novick, for example, have provoked serious debate by suggesting, in a detailed history of the place of the Holocaust in American public life, that memory of the Holocaust has been tailored to suit such agendas as support for Israel against its Mideastern foes. "There's been a movement over the past decade to begin looking very seriously at the ways in which the Holocaust has been 'marketed...
Sharpton talked about the action his organization, the National Action Network, has taken in response to the incidents, including recent rallies protesting the Diallo case verdict and upcoming plans for civil disobedience. He detailed specific items on his agenda: police training and testing, police accountability, residency requirements for police officers and a national mechanism for policing the police...
...Coming on the heels of Thomas Penfield Jackson's finding against Microsoft and state court actions brought against gun manufacturers, the Florida verdict seems to shore up a trend in which the public is turning to the courts and local governments - rather than to federal politicians - to seek redress against powerful special interests. It also explains why the Washington lobbyists would want to spread their gospel beyond the Beltway. "The judge will always instruct the jury that they're only to base their judgment on the facts of this case and not accept any outside influence," says TIME legal analyst...