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...lied about the affair. Despite the fact that nothing illegal took place and no one got their feelings hurt, the nature of the relationship—between two men with a significant age difference—violated enough of our society’s sexual norms to prohibit Adams from ascending to office. The ultimate tragedy is that the private sphere is allowed to inform the public to such a drastic degree...
...crime—no matter how grievous—will remain a criminal for the rest of his life. Confining a child to prison for the rest of his or her life constitutes cruel and unusual punishment, a type of injustice that the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution prohibits. The cruelty of confining a child to a lifetime in prison is self-evident. Such sentences are also unusual, for the punishment does not fit the crime—especially when, as in the case of Joe Sullivan, the crime does not involve homicide. Sullivan’s lawyers have recently...
...fight over cultural issues. Conservatives have been claiming since before the election that Obama would be "the most pro-abortion President in history," and they are eager for evidence to back up that charge. After Obama overturned the so-called abortion gag rule late last Friday - which had prohibited foreign nongovernmental family-planning groups from receiving any U.S. funds if they provided abortions or even lobbied for abortion rights in their country - House GOP leader John Boehner shot out a press release titled "President Obama's Executive Order Allowing Taxpayer-Funded Abortions Overseas," even though federal law continues to prohibit...
...destroyed, it does not regenerate - not in any significant way, at least. The Geron team began its work with what is known as a presidential stem-cell line - stem cells derived from discarded in vitro-fertilization embryos that already existed in 2001 when then President Bush decided to prohibit the use of federal funds to pursue human embryonic-stem-cell work. At the time, fewer than two dozen of these stem-cell lines were of good enough quality to use as a basis for human treatments...
...violent youth. The program, due to its unusual mixture of public and private partners, will be able to hire 25 new street workers through the Ten Point Coalition (A Boston ecumenical group of clergy and other leaders), therefore bypassing Massachusetts’ Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI) laws which prohibit Boston from hiring street workers with a criminal background...