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...Breaking the Habit The writers of The Wire are wrong to advocate jury nullification as civil disobedience in America's war on drugs [March 17]. These men say they would acquit any drug defendant, regardless of the evidence, if the crime did not involve violence. Their position undermines the legal system - society would collapse if everyone applied this principle for his own social grievance. And it is difficult, if not impossible, to distinguish between "nonviolent" and "violent" drug offenses. The seeds of violence - shattered lives, shattered bodies, broken homes - are sown every time illegal drugs "peacefully" pass from hand...
...getting really frustrated with the wireless,” the Adams resident says. But he also notes, “it’s hard because none of the common rooms in most of the Houses have data jacks.”“I had to wire a very long piece of Ethernet wire under my roommate’s rug to the common room,” he adds.Dunster comes in second worst in the survey, with a little under half of respondents dissatisfied. Kroll says there are theories within the HCS on what could be causing...
...good opportunity to become good friends with Tool and A Perfect Circle. As you can tell by the cover of the book, I find Joseph Cornell’s work fascinating. This is pretty literary, but I just finished watching the entire series of “The Wire.” It’s almost scary to say it, but if all television was as good as “The Wire,” people who write fiction and poetry would be looking for work. Have you seen it?FM: Just one season over winter break. There...
...indisputable that this was a serious speech about the incendiary topic of race in America. Obama was performing his high-wire act, trying to appear black enough for the African-American community and post-racial enough for white voters. That's as tough a task as exists in American politics, and one speech alone will never accomplish it. But if he is to win the nomination and the general election, he has to engage voters in this dialogue, and the sooner the better. He's started down that road, and he has to continue. Whether he likes...
...politics, the most important things almost always go down to the wire. And sometimes past it. Texas, it now appears, will be no exception to that rule. As Jesse Jackson once said as he made his own way to the Atlanta convention in 1988, clinging to nearly 1,000 delegates and stubbornly refusing to give up the fight, "It ain't over till its over. And even then it ain't over...