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The U.S. exchanges ' share of initial public offerings has dwindled while those of its European and Asian counterparts have jumped . " And he showed deference to those he called the " people across the street " in Congress , who have been chosen by " hundreds of thousands of people , millions of people . Instead , the judge , after listing specific mitigating factors , issued a more generic direction to consider any other circumstance that " extenuates the gravity of the crime even though it is not a legal excuse for the crime . " We as a government are willing and able to try all perpetrators of offenses in Darfur , and for this reason the ICC has absolutely no right to assume any jurisdiction , " Justice Minister Mohammed Ali al-Mardi told The Associated Press in an interview . " This court has repeatedly held that , under the Sixth Amendment , any fact that exposes a defendant to a greater potential sentence must be found by the jury , not a judge , and established beyond a reasonable doubt , not merely by a preponderance of the evidence , " Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote for the court.The majority was one vote larger than the 5-4 rulings that have been the norm in sentencing cases . " Any solution to the problems of accuracy , reliability , and recountability that have plagued electronic voting in Florida must also ensure that the right of disabled voters as well as language minorities not be negatively impacted , " Simon said in a prepared statement . These talks have yielded some results , such as the exchange of family visits organized in 1989 . The race penalty , on average , totaled about $ 1,000 per black victim.As Iyengar and his colleagues subsequently dug deeper into these data , another finding emerged : Republicans consistently gave less aid , and gave over a shorter period of time , to victims regardless of race . How can people apply these insights today ? " But Justice John Paul Stevens said the trial judge 's decision not to expressly instruct jurors to consider the mitigating evidence resulted in a confusion that " pervaded every aspect of respondent 's sentencing hearing . " These days , he occasionally turns at the sound of a blaring horn to see a stranger raising a middle finger at him.He walks into a Herndon diner called Amphora , his secret gathering spot today , a one-block stroll to where a crowd of Latino day laborers has already gathered to wait for potential employers . Bush appointed her White House counsel when Alberto Gonzales became attorney general.Yet those eager for a nominee with conservative judicial decision-making experience joined other critics who noted that Miers had never been a judge and lacked credentials in constitutional law . " When the court takes up the federal abortion law , it will be considering a statute that was passed by a large majority in Congress and signed by Bush in 2003 - - and then struck down by every lower federal court that has considered it.The lower courts ruled that the law is incompatible with a 5 to 4 ruling by the Supreme Court in 2000 that held that a similar state law , from Nebraska , was unconstitutional.In that case , known as Stenberg v. Carhart , the court said the statute could be read to prohibit other procedures and lacked an exception to protect a mother 's health , creating an " undue burden " on the right to abortion first recognized in Roe.The Republican-controlled Congress included an exception to save a mother 's life . But alas , the results of this study , properly and widely disseminated , just might motivate more retirees to take up an inner directed and scheduled program of mental exercises every day for the rest of their lives . Despite these setbacks , the ruling party 's candidate for president , Roh Moo Hyun , won the election in Dec ., 2002 . Just as the justices scrutinized Virginia 's system for carrying out the death penalty several years ago , they are examining four cases from Texas this year , including the three heard yesterday.The number of capital cases is not unusual for the court , those who follow the issue say . " I 'm the PR , " says Yildirim , and the PR goes two ways : At once , he is trying to redeem the name of the police department to Muslims and the reputation of Islam to police officers.Of course , the misunderstandings may also go every which way , even for Yildirim , a funeral director by trade who may or may not have become conversant in cop talk but who also does n't speak the languages of the majority of immigrant Muslims in New York.Arabs and South Asians form the largest immigrant groups among the city 's 600,000 Muslims , according to a Columbia University study - - and Yildirim , born in Germany to Turkish parents and educated at an Islamic high school in Istanbul - - knows only prayers and hellos in Arabic and no Urdu at all.He says that 's no problem - - " For Muslim culture you know everything about them because you believe in the same faith . The case is Skakel v. Connecticut , 06-52.The court also declined to review author Lewis Perdue 's contention that the blockbuster novel " The Da Vinci Code " is substantially similar to his own book , " Daughter of God . The law defines " aggravated felony " to include any drug-trafficking offense that is a " felony punishable under " federal drug laws . " The special advisory council " will share ideas for how to position America to meet every challenge that confronts us , " Bush plans to say . In performing daily functions , people who got the speed training along with a handful of follow-up sessions significantly outperformed those who did not get such training.The results , being published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association , are heartening , but Willis and Marsiske cautioned that the biggest challenge lies ahead , in getting people to apply the findings to their lives . Both now are careful not to talk about current issues before the court ; in 2004 , Scalia recused himself from a decision on the constitutionality of the phrase " under God " in the Pledge of Allegiance , after speaking out on the case at a rally in Virginia.Such considerations are an important part of a judge 's impartiality but also underscore a justice 's privilege to answer only questions that are welcome.So Ginsburg in September was abrupt when Wallace attempted to ask her about one of the court 's most enduringly controversial subjects .