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...jurors and lawyers are adolescents and so are the judge and the bailiff, who swears in witnesses that often include the only adults in the room: parents, victims and police officers. The perps are limited to first-time offenders who are under the age of 19 and who admit guilt to minor crimes. Sentences are generally creative forms of community service, never jail terms, and the record shows that 99% of those sentenced complete the required tasks. Doing so keeps their criminal records clean, which helps for college and job applications...
...Admit it: you feel guilty about the lightweight stuff you read in summer. But there's a compromise between Harlequin romances and Hegel's Phenomenology: brief but thoughtful volumes of history and biography. Weighing in at fewer than 200 pages, these books are slim but not slight...
...admit that usually—lost in the life my own family has led in the U.S., lost with school, and yes, lost with writing for this very newspaper—I tend to forget that so many of my roots are found right here. I was born and raised in a condominium in New York, so things like geography and language and culture obviously stand in the way of any true reunion between the two locales...
Lawyers on both sides of the case would not comment on the agreement, and there was no indication as to the extent of damages or whether Harvard, Shleifer, or Hay would admit wrongdoing under the settlement. Spokespeople for Harvard and the U.S. district attorney’s office said that the terms of the settlement would be made public once it is signed...
...time of Pring-Wilson’s 2004 trial, Massachusetts law gave judges discretion on whether to admit a victim’s violent past as evidence...