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...court decision and the passage of a new law that -- like laws of most other states -- recognizes the "battered woman syndrome" as a legal defense. The Governor reviewed the cases of 105 women who had not been allowed to use that defense before the new Ohio rules went into effect. He freed 21 who had already spent two years behind bars and said four others could leave after completing two years. He ordered all of them to perform 200 hours of community service...
While deficit cutting is good long-term policy, the immediate effect is likely to be more pain. "We are raising taxes in the teeth of a recession," Ratajczak noted. "I am not sure that many people would call that a useful idea." Added Fosler: "The budget agreement was very much like spraying shrapnel. It was sort of an AK-47, as opposed to a target rifle, in terms of its impact on the economy. Lots of sectors are going to be paying higher fees and costs for public services...
Both tendencies, toward anarchy and a crackdown, gathered speed as the People's Deputies met. Five republics in effect declined to participate: Lithuania and Armenia would not send official delegations; Latvians and Estonians attended only as observers; most of the delegates from Moldova (as the Moldavian republic now calls itself) walked out in a complicated dispute over the creation of independent ethnic states within that small republic...
...absolutely convinced you can't," he says. "If there's a question about the moral purpose here, I really urge people to read this report. It's going to have a devastating effect. And there are comparisons between this and what happened when ((Hitler's)) Death's Head Regiment went into Poland. I'm about 200 pages into a 950-page book. It's a history of World War II. And the reason I made reference to the Death's Head Regiment is that it was very clearly spelled out what happened. They came in after the original troops...
...Another effect of globalization: rather than waiting months or years before being released outside the country, American movies and television programs are beginning to enter the foreign marketplace in their infancy and even at birth -- and boosting profits. Universal opened Back to the Future II in the U.S., Europe and Japan simultaneously. The film made more than $300 million, and the receipts were available months earlier than usual, accruing millions of dollars in interest...