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Some Senators were convinced to at least keep an open mind. Richard Burr of North Carolina and Jim Bunning of Kentucky - both of whom voted to shelve the bill last week - emerged from the room "open to listen to anything proposed." Senator John Thune, a South Dakota Republican who also...
If “general education is the public face of liberal education”—as the Task Force on General Education report declared this year—Harvard will soon be known for being muddled and uninspiring. The new curriculum, which was passed last month by...
In January 2005, the high court finally gave an answer: enhancements required by the federal guidelines also violate the right to a jury trial, but the constitutional fix is to make the guidelines optional. So a judge can use his traditional discretion to determine sentences, while consulting the guidelines, and...
Operating out of San Francisco, Mead, who served 18 years in Washington State for crimes committed in the '70s as a member of the revolutionary group George Jackson Brigade, is now a prison-reform activist. He says art gives prisoners a sense of themselves, raises their self-esteem and keeps...
"The [new] bill does cause some concerns," says Marv Johnson, legal counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union in Washington, D.C. "It's a bit too broad and does raise some First Amendment issues by affecting protected activity."