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...N.A.A.C.P., trading its long-standing cautiousness for a new militancy. Only a day after his selection, he demonstrated the association's renewed concern for reaching the inner-city poor by journeying to violence-plagued housing projects in Los Angeles to help keep the peace as the city awaited the verdict in the federal trial of four police officers accused of violating Rodney King's civil rights. Chavis hopes to broaden the group's appeal to include Hispanics, Asian Americans and other "people of color" in the U.S., while converting the N.A.A.C.P. into a global human-rights organization by establishing chapters...
Basically a Democrat, Kinsley is enough of an independent thinker that he occasionally argues with himself. Last fall, as an intellectual exercise, he set out to make a case for voting for George Bush. He produced some cogent arguments, then pronounced a one-word verdict on them: "Nawwwwww . . ." Now, bucking journalistic fashion, Kinsley describes himself as still "one of the bigger Clinton enthusiasts around." The President has made mistakes, he says, but "the center of his trouble is that he is seriously addressing problems that the past two Presidents have ignored," notably the deficit (Mike is a confirmed deficit hawk...
...however, refused to settle. The first trial, which lasted for nine days last July, ended with a verdict for the government...
...Cheese pizza, is deliriously happy to be the center of attention. But his sister Mercedes, 18, has become worried. She has noticed an insect bite on the boy's lower arm, accompanied by a red streak running upward and inward toward his heart. The pediatrician is called, and the verdict is wrenching: the bite appears to be infected; John Paul must go straight to the emergency room...
...Supreme Court ruled that a verdict must be voided if the judge fails to properly instruct the jury that it has to find guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. That was a relief to civil libertarians in light of the court's previous rulings that other irregularities, such as coerced confessions, can be deemed "harmless errors," which would not automatically taint a conviction...