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...fourth quarter: A short Hull punt hits a Quaker, and Noah Van Niel recovers the ball at the 20 yard line of Penn. Terrible, unforgivable mistake by Penn. That might prove the dagger in the proverbial heart of Quaker fans everywhere. So much for that whole non-violent stance, huh, guys...
...frustration and despair within the camp is equally palpable. Meetings explode into angry words and constant hardships leave people vulnerable to desperate compromises. Braun singles out Hejewa Adam, a beautiful woman whose son was beaten to death on her back by the Janjaweed, the genocide’s most violent perpetrators. Adam is now a committed member of a rebel army. Alone in front of a wall scrawled with “I will die for Darfur,” she describes her new reality: “I have learned to fight. It is like drinking water...
...Parker also mentioned Colono’s violent record—which includes alledgedly assaulting two people on a subway and then spitting on the police officers who arrested him. This evidence had been excluded from the first trial...
...decades ago, this 100:1 drug-quantity ratio appealed to legislators who believed crack was instantly addictive and caused violent behavior. And the sentencing commission worked these dramatically different drug thresholds into its otherwise nuanced sentencing guidelines, which add jail time for aggravating factors like the presence of a firearm and reduce it for such things as acceptance of guilt...
...Besides the violent history of Colono, the defense will also be able to cite the record of Colono’s cousin Samuel Rodriguez. Rodriguez was with Colono on the night he died and said he jumped into the fight when he could see his relative losing...