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...guilt as an inducement to lie. The S & L debacle and the Wall Street insider trading scandals of the late 1980s involved exquisitely complex patterns of lies and deceptions. These fiascos harmed thousands of investors and left taxpayers with a staggering bill to pay, but that was not their intent. The purpose of the lies told in these massive scams was to enrich the perpetrators...
...will not comment on whether he has visited the Widener stacks with carnal intent. Nobody will testify to his temporary presence on John Harvard...
...kiss through layers of cloth in The Lovers (1928), or The Titanic Days (1928), his image of attempted rape, in which the bodies of the terrified woman and the attacking man are fused together as in a grim photographic overlap. Often his color is extremely beautiful, though the viewer, intent on the visual conundrums, may not at first notice how powerful and tender it can be. But as his friend Louis Scutenaire wrote, "Magritte is a great painter. Magritte is not a painter." He had no interest in what the French called la belle matiere, and when he did essay...
...Intent requires "a higher burden of proof" beyond merely establishing that excessive force was used, observes Drew S. Days III, of the Yale law school, who headed the civil rights division in the Carter Administration's Justice Department. Proving specific intent is "difficult, but not impossible," says Mary Frances Berry, a member of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. Since 1988, the Justice Department has filed 99 civil rights cases involving official misconduct. It has won convictions in three-quarters of them...
...notion of intent, though hard to prove, opens up avenues that were not available to the state prosecutors. Federal attorneys will be able to introduce evidence showing the police were predisposed to react with excessive force -- not just toward minorities but also toward anyone under arrest. In contrast to the earlier criminal case, moreover, federal prosecutors can examine the records of the defendants in other arrests, dig into their personnel files and even probe their conversations for evidence of prejudicial attitudes or a propensity toward brutality...