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...response to a neighbor's complaint, all first-year residents of 29 Garden St. were sent a letter warning them to "behave in a more thoughtful and considerate manner in the future...
...convinced that a lot of the tensions last year left people feeling that they want to go about things in a more civil manner," she said. "There are positive signs that a sense of community is building and that people will be able to solve problems together...
...what bothers Carnes' critics is that his legal experience consists chiefly of having been an ardent defender of a system of capital punishment that they say is infected by racial discrimination. Carnes said during his April confirmation hearing that capital punishment was not applied in a racially discriminatory manner "in Alabama or in the nation" -- a view in keeping with the Supreme Court's own rulings, though one study after another has demonstrated that blacks who kill whites are far more likely to be sentenced to death than whites who kill blacks...
...star of Robert Altman's The Player, Robbins learned how to keep things smartly abustle. And in the manner of Altman's TV series Tanner '88, he sets an easily acidulous tone; Robbins is having fun poking fun. Ultimately, as if to prove paranoia is not unique to right-wingers, he blames Bob and his advisers for every political atrocity of the past decade -- and a few new ones, including framing a rabid fringe journalist (Giancarlo Esposito) who may have the goods on bad Bob. The crimes are listed not so much to push a leftish agenda as to clarify...
...girls lost in a lower-court decision, and a federal appeals court last week ruled against them. In a 7-to-5 decision, the court held that while school officials may have disregarded complaints of the assaults, students are not confined in the manner of mental patients or prisoners; in short, the victims could have sought help outside the school, but failed to do so. The girls' lawyer said he would take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court...