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...year-old high school dropout. The 19 were charged, too, in connection with the killings. Whatever the outcome, the trial will certainly become one of the most celebrated in years?if only because the murder of the three young civil rights workers had been so shameless, shocking and senseless a crime...
...such groups in L.A., all of them stuck in a deadly spiral of violence that the justice system has not broken, though it has put tens of thousands of gangsters behind bars. Five members of the Playboys were shot dead in the past year--most of them in senseless turf battles with nearby rivals...
...sovereign” (though internationally sanctioned) pre-war Iraq in which children fly kites and shoppers smile in the sunshine. Popular Democratic bloggers continue posting only the negative stories out of Iraq. And just last week, a spokesperson for Moveon.org again condemned “the senseless number of Iraqi deaths that this war and instability has caused.” Once-idealistic liberals now poison their anti-Bush stew with what used to be heartlessly Republican foreign policy ideas: dictatorial “stability” over democratic turbulence, and “sovereignty” over human rights...
Under pressure from the U.S., Japan agreed last November to put its sperm whalers, among the last practitioners of an ancient profession, out of business by 1988. American conservationists, who consider whaling a senseless slaughter of an endangered species, were not satisfied. Greenpeace and eleven other environmental groups sued the U.S. Government, charging that amendments to two separate conservation laws require in effect that the Administration impose economic sanctions on Japan for its whaling operations...
...AslongastheG.O.P.panderstothefanatics in the gun lobby, Americans will have to endure a senseless massacre every few months. Check your calendar for the next...