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...free speech to challenge a local ban on advertising by gambling casinos. Because of the crime and corruption that gambling could attract, Puerto Rico could have outlawed betting altogether, stated Justice William Rehnquist for the court, and the "greater power to completely ban casino gambling necessarily includes the lesser power to ban advertising of casino gambling." More ominously for other advertisers, Rehnquist suggested that the same logic could be used to justify governmental restrictions on other "products or activities deemed harmful, such as cigarettes, alcoholic beverages, and prostitution...
Abbas and two fellow fugitives were given life sentences, but the hijacker accused of actually killing the 69-year-old Leon Klinghoffer received a lesser sentence--30 years in prison...
Five defendants were convicted of lesser charges in the hijacking, and four others, all fugitives, were acquitted...
...miles up 200 miles of the fabled Mississippi Delta. Yes, Faulkner came from here, but, more important to Malcolm White at the moment, so did B.B. King, Charlie Patton, Robert Johnson, Howlin' Wolf, Son House, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Sonny Boy Williamson and a lot of old lesser lights who still sing the blues off the front porches of tumbledown shacks. "Check this out," White said at one point. "We're going to pick up a blind man that's going to show us how to get to this other guy's house...
...there as well) cannot be used, for instance, in a country like Turkey, which for decades was ravaged by civil strife and terror. The executive editor of the New York Times, A.M. Rosenthal, asked unhappily in a recent magazine article: "Do we really only have (a) choice between the lesser of evils?" In many cases and in much of the world, that is indeed the only choice we have. To recognize this is not to abandon or betray American ideals but only to see that these ideals require the support of practical and feasible policy...