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...sympathy for excessive lenience. Despite such strong and opposing beliefs founded upon Venables’s and Thompson’s young ages, the legal age for criminal responsibility in England is 10 years old, and psychiatrists ruled that both the children could distinguish between right and wrong. In spite of general cries for vengeance and dismay over the seemingly lenient eight-year sentence, many murderers do not in fact serve much longer, and life sentence is far from the ubiquitous punishment. Although a 10-year-old, according to the legal system and psychiatric analysis, is considered old enough...
According to a student survey, which had a 50 percent participation rate, breakfast attendance rates have remained static this year in spite of the elimination of hot breakfast, Mayer noted...
Last Friday, Arizona’s Republican governor Jan K. Brewer signed into law the nation’s strictest bill on illegal immigration to date in spite of concern expressed by President Obama. Under the legislation, police may now detain individuals whom they reasonably suspect entered the United States illegally and authorities can charge immigrants with state crimes if they fail to carry proper immigration papers at any given time. In addition, it even grants citizens the right to sue their cities should they feel that the law is not being enforced strongly enough. While we understand that Arizona...
...spite of the trying circumstances, we believe Thisdell should be commended for how she handled this situation. By citing the Privacy Protection Act when the police initially requested photos, Thisdell not only attempted to protect the transparency and honesty of her school’s newspaper, but also made a statement about how college newspapers have the same rights as other journalism outlets. She acted in the best manner she could have, given the circumstances...
...said that in spite of progress toward gender equality from factors like economic change, new trends in parenting, longer lifespans, and the women’s movement, men—and especially white, middle-class, college-educated men—often continue to express themselves as superior...