San Francisco Daily Journal, March 20, by Brent Kendall
http://www.dailyjournal.com
Elisabeth Semel … was pleased with the outcome but found it “very peculiar” that the Court did not focus on the Simpson-specific facts or the racial issues that surrounded the entire trial. Semel … said the opinion was “stripped of all its important racial context…. It’s a missed opportunity to talk about race.”
Mercury News, March 20, by Sean Webby
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_8642914?source=most_viewed
“San Jose has an extremely low homicide rate—even this year—by Bay area standards,” Zimring said. “There are no indications in this small collection of cases that there has been any real trend.”
Slate.com, March 19, by Diane Amann
http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/convictions/archive/2008/03/19/what-em-snyder-em-did-not-say-about-race.aspx
“The U.S. Supreme Court is to be commended for what it did in Snyder. But on this day when America ponders Sen. Barack Obama’s profound unmasking of the issue of race, it seems proper to question the decision of the Court to leave so much unsaid.”
Nature.com, March 17, by Erika Check Hayden
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080317/full/452265b.html
“The re-examination has strengthened WARF’s [Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation] position,” Taymor says. “It has deflected attention from the downstream patent landscape that WARF and Geron have created, and which is much more critical to commercialization than the fundamental patents.”
U.S. News & World Report, March 17, by Emma Schwartz
http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/world/2008/03/17/the-challenge-of-prosecuting-bosnian-war-criminals_print.htm
The limited enforcement “raises this perception of legitimacy and fairness,” says Laurel Fletcher, a human rights law specialist. “[These cases] are essentially associational crimes, and people are feeling that in the context of a war, when they weren’t given a choice and political dissent was not permitted, that they shouldn’t be judged for their actual association.”
WSJ.com, MarketWatch, March 17, by Gail Liberman and Alan Lavine
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/your-bank-should-doing-protect/story.aspx?guid=%7B8C4ADD11-3644-400B-A02C-D6D283DDFF5C%7D
“Lending institutions should publicly report basic statistical information about identity theft events,” he says. Information they should disclose: The number of identity theft events suffered or avoided; the form of identity theft attempted; the targeted product, such as a mortgage loan or credit card; and the amount of loss suffered.
NPR, Weekend Edition Sunday, March 16, by Nancy Mullane
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88324577
“It would have been quite routine for people pretty close to the time of their eligibility to get a parole date and get paroled…. This [1988] ballot initiative made each one of these decisions a personal accountability point for the governor.”
Eureka Times Standard, March 10, by Thadeus Greenson
http://www.times-standard.com/ci_8518591
“Typically batterers can be wonderful, loving, sweet people, sometimes, and victims are often hoping they will return back to the person they have been,” Lemon said. “There’s always the hope that he will change.”
Salon.com, March 9, by Joan Walsh
http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/election_2008/2008/03/09/policylink/
“We’ve been having this dialogue, black-brown, from the day we met. We care passionately about finding ways in our own work to try and make America live up to its promise. What I’ve learned is, the tensions are real, but you can overcome.”
The Recorder, March 7, by Sarah Song
http://www.law.com/jsp/ca/index.jsp
“The archbishop and his supporters are gambling that accommodating Islamic courts is not only the right thing to do, but also the best way to foster the integration of Muslim minorities in the West. They may well be right. But they need to offer concrete proposals for addressing this dilemma. So long as the dominant interpretations of Shariah law deny the equality of women, formally recognizing it may come at women’s expense.”