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Jeff Wrangler:

--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on September 15, 2015, 04:19:14 pm ---I see the last part of the sentence, that Catholicism stays true to its core values, more than the first part, that the church changes. But I'm looking at it from the outside. Someone who is close to the church would of course see that it has changed a lot over the years.

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Some changes you can see even from the outside. For example, with Vatican II, the Roman Church decided that Mass could be said in the vernacular, and it was OK for the laity to receive Communion "in both kinds"--450 years after the Protestant Reformation.

Jeff Wrangler:
I'm now reading the Sept. 14 article about the attorney who got life imprisonment for defended the Boston Marathon bomber, and other clients as well, and I'm finding the article riveting.

Jeff Wrangler:

--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on September 16, 2015, 01:49:22 pm ---I'm now reading the Sept. 14 article about the attorney who got life imprisonment for defended the Boston Marathon bomber, and other clients as well, and I'm finding the article riveting.

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--- Quote from: serious crayons on September 17, 2015, 12:58:23 pm ---Oh! I saw that and wanted to read it. Thanks for the reminder.

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I finished it today at lunch. I think it's very, very good. And my earlier comment was based on faulty memory. I thought I remembered that she got him "life." He did not get "life." I seem to have confused that case with another recent case where somebody got "life" because the jury couldn't agree on "death," but I can't remember which case that one was.

serious crayons:

--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on September 16, 2015, 01:49:22 pm ---I'm now reading the Sept. 14 article about the attorney who got life imprisonment for the Boston Marathon bomber, and other clients as well, and I'm finding the article riveting.
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I'm reading it now, and I agree! I love her statement, "Legalized homicide is not a good idea in a civilized society." Kind of understated, but that's exactly how I feel. It's less about whether the person might actually be innocent (though of course that's a giant problem, too), but that the government should not be in the business of killing, even if the people are killers. One never knows for sure, but I'd like to think I'd feel the same even if [knock, knock] someone I knew were a victim.

However, the article contains one of their more egregious examples of the New Yorker's refusal to put an attribution verb before the subject and creating incredibly awkward writing as a result [ellipses mine]:

"You could count the number of women ... on one hand," Elizabeth Semel, who met Clarke during this period and now runs the death-penalty clinic at the University of California-Berkeley School of Law, recalls.

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