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Juries acquit defendants whose culpability is so clear that their own lawyers later admit they were almost certain of a guilty verdict. A 100 percent track record may be unrealistic, but courts must do better to convict those who clearly commit unlawful acts. It is the current inequitable process of jury selection that is largely to blame...
Last Tuesday I attended a date rape workshop at the first-year entryway where I am a prefect. The statistics given were staggering: One out of four college women have been raped, usually by someone they know. In one study, 30 percent of college men said they would commit rape if they thought they could get away with it. When the word "rape" was not used, 50 percent of the men surveyed said they would commit acts meeting the legal definition of rape...
Without powerful leaders willing to commit resources to schools, communities and minority-owned businesses beyond the Yard, nothing will change. Without trustworthy role models for the minority children of this country to admire and take hope from, nothing will change...
...infidelity might come up, and this would afford them a chance to start defusing such stories. It happened as they foresaw; they readily affirmed that their marriage had been through some shaky times, but insisted it was now rock solid. Implicit message from Clinton: Even if I did commit adultery, so what? It's in the past, and so long as Hillary is satisfied about that and will stick by me, it's no one else's business...
...cavalier toward the use of military force, perhaps stemming from the fact that foreign service officers would not be the ones risking their lives; in the case of Bosnia, the State Department favors an increased U.S. role. The Defense Department, on the other hand, has been very hesitant to commit U.S. forces when the objectives are political and unachievable, if defined at all; the Pentagon is dead set against any intervention in Bosnia, which would quickly turn into a quagmire...