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The government’s chief prosecutor has launched an outspoken attack on plans by David Blunkett, the home secretary, to try terrorists without juries and in secret.
Ken Macdonald QC, the director of public prosecutions, says in an article in today’s Sunday Times that plans for trials without juries of some terror suspects would undermine public faith in the criminal justice system. In his attack on proposals expected in Blunkett’s forthcoming draft terrorism bill to limit the right to jury trial for Al-Qaeda and other Islamic terror suspects, Macdonald says: "To be effective against... terrorism, we need to call on legislation that is clear, flexible and proportionate to the threat."
Nobody wants to throw out the baby with the bath water; we do not want to fight terrorism by destroying precisely those things terrorism is trying to take away from us.
"Open, liberal democracies fail if they try to protect
A. no terrorists can be caught if the legislation is unclear.
B. secret trials would destroy both public faith and terrorists.
C. nobody wants to offer "minor players" some immunity.
D. we should not try terrorists in secret.
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The government’s chief prosecutor has launched an outspoken attack on plans by David Blunkett, the home secretary, to try terrorists without juries and in secret.
Ken Macdonald QC, the director of public prosecutions, says in an article in today’s Sunday Times that plans for trials without juries of some terror suspects would undermine public faith in the criminal justice system. In his attack on proposals expected in Blunkett’s forthcoming draft terrorism bill to limit the right to jury trial for Al-Qaeda and other Islamic terror suspects, Macdonald says: "To be effective against... terrorism, we need to call on legislation that is clear, flexible and proportionate to the threat."
Nobody wants to throw out the baby with the bath water; we do not want to fight terrorism by destroying precisely those things terrorism is trying to take away from us.
"Open, liberal democracies fail if they try to protect
A. when he found the bill illegal.
B. after Queen's speech last week.
C. right after the bill was published.
D. after Lord Woolf criticised government plans.
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Last summer, some twenty-eight thousand homeless people were afforded shelter by the city of New York. Of this number, twelve thou sand were children and six thousand were parents living together in families. The average child was six years old, the average parent twenty seven. A typical homeless family included a mother with two or three children, but in about one-fifth of these families two parents were present. Roughly ten thousand single persons, then, made up the remainder of the population of the city’ s shelter.
These proportions vary somewhat from one area of the nation to another. In all areas, however, families are the fastest-growing sector of the homeless population, and in the Northeast they are by far the largest sector already. In Massachusetts, three-fourths of the homeless now are families with children; in certain parts of Massachusetts-Attleboro and Northampton, for example-the proportion reaches 90percent. Two thirds of the
A. Robert Hayes thought more homeless people are family members.
B. There is a trend that more and more homeless people live in families.
C. The proportion of homeless families remains the same in the country.
D. Most of the children had the opportunity, to study in Boston.
Directions:
You are going to read a text about stress, followed by a list of arguments. Choose the best argument from the list A--G for each numbered subheading (41--45). There are two extra arguments which you do not need to use. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.
41. Two types of stress:
There are basically two types of stress placed on human beings--physical and mental.
42. Effects of stress--physical or emotional:
Whether physical or emotional in origin, stress causes the body to react in the same way.
43. Guilty--useful, though most harmful:
Probably the most harmful of all the stresses is guilt.
44. Instances--no need to feel guilty:
However, many of us as children learned rules that we no longer need.
No one is perfect:
Guilt and the worry that often accompanies this major stress are difficult to eradicate, but people subject to excessive guil
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