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...questioning of judicial competency, which could be extended indefinitely to apply to even the most banal of cases and which could set an uncomfortable precedent. How many judges in this country hold medical degrees, majored in psychology, or have a background in forensic science? And yet, judges are called upon daily to evaluate factual material that can include medical records, the mental state of a defendant, or DNA evidence--all of which are probably better understood by an expert in each of those respective fields. Does this mean that those judges are "unequipped" to preside over these cases...
With those top three scoring threats all in action, the Crimson would be in good position to mount a serious attack upon a very imposing Hartford defensive unit. The Hawks have posted four shutouts in six games so far this season...
...shortly after the 3rd Battalion of the 504th Parachute Regiment arrived in the Balkans last September. Once deployed to the town of Vitina, the soldiers morphed, figuratively if not literally, into cops, poised delicately between the minority Serb population and Kosovar Albanians eager for revenge against the horrors wrought upon the Albanians by the Serbian forces of Slobodan Milosevic. The report concluded that the top U.S. officers in the town favored Serbs, who accounted for about a third of the populace, over Albanians, who made up the rest...
...there are substantive questions too about whether market forces will work as Bush and others promise when profit-driven corporations are called upon to provide care for what Diane Rowland, a health expert for the Kaiser Commission on Medicare and the Uninsured, calls "some of our most vulnerable, frail and lowest-income people." Simply put, would the elderly be able to buy an adequate plan with the sort of subsidy Bush wants to give them? As people near the end of their lives, growing steadily sicker, is it choice they need--or reliable support...
When Reilly got to the part of the story in which the Korean birth mother breaks down upon seeing her 11-year-old daughter, so did I. He has written a true story with such emotional yin-yang that it socks you in the stomach and leaves you breathless. SYBIL HINKLE Napa, Calif...