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Arrest them, sentence them and lock 'em up
There's something wrong with our nationwide prison system when the Corrections Corporation of America, which runs private prisons, offers $250 million in a proposal to 48 states to buy up state prisons with several provisos -- one of which is states...Tags: Lawyers, Prisons, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Hotel and Accommodation Industry, The New York Times
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Robert E. Conot dies at 82; journalist wrote exhaustive study of the Watts riots
To organize his research on the Watts riots, journalist Robert E. Conot sketched out the hour-by-hour progress of events in 1965 on a 25-foot-long stretch of paper, then dressed the diagram in the exhaustive detail for which he became known.
The timeline...Tags: International Law, Biography (genre), Health, Stanford University, Journalism
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Tags: International Law, Omar al-Bashir, Al Green, Charity, George Clooney
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Conservatism's two faces
Last week, the nation lost an elegant inquisitor and a nasty pugilist. Both were conservatives and natives of Southern California, and they agreed about many matters of policy. But James Q. Wilson delved deeply on matters of significance and left a vast...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, White House, Barack Obama, Andrew Breitbart, Same-Sex Marriage
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On Oscars: The best often don't win
On Sunday, Hollywood celebrates itself and honors its own. All eyes (or most of them anyway) will be on the presentations of the Academy Awards.
But do the Oscars always end up in the right hands? Opinions abound on this topic, and what follows is only...Tags: Barbara Stanwyck, Cloris Leachman, Laurence Olivier, Tilda Swinton, Richard Widmark
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Ex-Maryland man faces Guantanamo war crimes trial
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A Pentagon legal official approved war crimes charges Wednesday for a Pakistani detainee at Guantanamo who is accused of joining al-Qaida and taking part in a series of post-Sept. 11 terror plots after spending much of his...Tags: Juvenile Delinquency, International Law, National Security, Prisons, Murder
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Mail Call - Jan. 3
“You should ask your readers how many believe in the daily horoscope. What a waste of space.” — Paramount “I’m calling because my granddaughter ... had layaway, and she works very hard at her job, she helps children with...Tags: Juvenile Delinquency, Companies and Corporations, Waynesboro (Waynesboro, Virginia), Business, Theft
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Remember the Bill of Rights
Summit TownshipThe United States Constitution is a remarkable document; it is the product of much labor and compromise by some of the best minds our country has seen. The Constitution establishes the framework and powers of our federal government and was ratified...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Freedom of the Press, Government, Justice and Rights, National Government
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Defense suggests accused WikiLeaker was troubled soldier
To his supporters, Army Pfc. Bradley E. Manning is a hero, the whistle-blower who revealed U.S. war crimes and diplomatic double-dealing in the Pentagon records and State Department cables he is alleged to have sent to the anti-secrecy organization...Tags: Lawyers, Wars and Interventions, Fort Meade (military base), Labor Legislation, Armed Conflicts
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Manning investigators found huge trove of war reports — and a boast
Army investigators found nearly half a million field reports from Iraq and Afghanistan on a computer memory card among the belongings of Pfc. Bradley Manning, with a note suggesting that an unnamed recipient "sit on this information" while deciding how...Tags: Lawyers, Fort Meade (military base), Security, Iraq, U.S. Department of Defense
Mar 19, 2012
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Nov 27, 2011
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Mar 17, 2012
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Mar 6, 2012
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Feb 27, 2012
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Feb 24, 2012
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Feb 23, 2012
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Feb 16, 2012
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Jan 2, 2012
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Jan 29, 2012
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Dec 10, 2011
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Dec 19, 2011
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