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Omaha a leader in school storm safety

May 28, 2013

Omaha World-Herald - “There may be other surprises out there, but you're essentially unique,” said Ernst Kiesling of the National Wind Institute at Texas Tech University. Kiesling also is executive director of the National Storm Shelter Association.

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How Will The Myth Of The `Secure´ Border Affect Immigration Reform?

May 28, 2013

Saraines Calderon - “The incessant focus on security is largely, if not purely, a political ploy,” said Miguel Levario, a history professor focusing on the U.S.-Mexico borderlands at Texas Tech University. “What is hugely disturbing is how 9/11 somehow meant militarizing our southern border — when we all know the southern border had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks.”

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Metze on Enforcing the Right to Counsel at Trial

May 24, 2013

Crime Prof Blog - Professor Metze takes a critical look at the historical and contemporary law on the right to counsel and the evolution of what measure the courts must use to review trial counsel’s performance. By the use of the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, the courts have settled on the proper measure of counsel’s representation. Struggling with the new rights extended to former servants and slaves, the courts following the Civil War fought a slow but steady battle to implement the constitutional guarantees of the Bill of Rights to all citizens.

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