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...Though advance publicity may make it a bit more difficult for the court to find an impartial jury to hear the case, press reports are hardly "polluting the minds" of those who read them, as defense attorneys in the case have maintained. Press coverage allows the public to judge the severity of the problem of sexual violence among college students and gives those who might commit such violence notice their actions could have grave consequences...
...Though those events now seem like relics of a long-distant past, they all occurred in the past two years. Since last summer, however, the war on drugs has become almost an afterthought. Part of the reason is simply that public concern has been diverted by the Persian Gulf crisis and fears of a recession. But there is another sign of the issue's decline: though he sounded a call to arms soon after taking office, the President too has turned his attention elsewhere...
...roughly the same as in 1988 and 1989. There would be far more if the jails, courts and parole system were not already strained to the breaking point. A 1989 seizure of cocaine at a warehouse in the San Fernando Valley's Sylmar illustrates the size of the problem. Though 21 tons of coke were confiscated, records showed that at least 55 tons, worth $1.1 billion, had passed through the warehouse in the previous three months. According to Deputy Chief of Police Glenn Levant, the raid "made little if any impact on the availability of cocaine that we have been...
...feelings and live within the characters and story. I think more about a character when I'm with someone else on the ice, so the acting is better. And we wanted to put together East and West." She became Boitano's partner in the idea for a touring show -- though not, as publicity suggested, off the ice. The combination had enough appeal to launch a 29-city run last winter...
...ostensible goal of rights movements is a color-blind, gender-blind society. Activists are supposed to raise awareness of discrimination until the discrimination is fixed--and then the playing field is supposed to be level. Even though the playing field is still tilted against women, Margaret Thatcher proved that sometimes the best man for a job is a woman...