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Repealing a constitutional amendment is not an action to be taken lightly; America is obviously a nation that prides itself on the rights and freedoms of individuals. But the time has come for the U.S. to weigh the right to bear arms against the right to be free from gun violence in schools, workplaces and city streets. Over 13,000 people were killed by guns in 1998, not including suicides, which would more than double that number. While a right to bear arms may have made sense in early America, it is hardly necessary now. Americans are protected internationally...
...charges or arrests have been made, as the victims and Harvard weigh whether to press criminal charges or deal with the matter through the College’s Administrative Board...
Some prosecutors, however, question the long-term effectiveness of the staggered sentence and express concern about its fairness, since the sentence is given to only some offenders. The experiment has generated so much attention that the Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines Commission plans to weigh in on the debate with a study due to be released this summer. "If it works as well as he says it does, everybody should be doing it," says Scott Swanson, executive director of the commission. "If not, we should be able to tell." --By Sarah Sturmon Dale
Introducing profit-motive into public education by transferring control to corporations like Edison Schools, Inc. threatens to further dilute community power. Decisions by such companies must weigh community input against not only educational goals and budget constraints—as school boards, nonprofit firms and universities would—but also against the impact on its own bottom line. Sometimes that interest runs counter to the quality of education students receive. For example, more costly programs like performing arts do not produce the kind of higher test schools that help for-profit firms sell their product to other districts...
...trial would address. But why does it follow from this sensitivity that there must be a moratorium on public reflection? Doesn’t that very sensitivity make public discussion all the more urgent? And given the complexity of the problem, wouldn’t a procedure designed to weigh competing claims and arrive at a deliberated outcome be useful in finding solutions...