Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mentally retarded people may be punishable by death. By a 5-to-4 vote, the high court ruled in a pair of decisions that the constitutional ban on "cruel and unusual punishments" does not forbid the execution of youths who commit crimes at 16 or 17 years of age, nor does it automatically prohibit death sentences for the retarded. "By executing the retarded and people who aren't old enough to vote or serve in & the Army," said Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, "we're doing something barbarous: executing the least culpable people on death...
...rulings, conservative legal experts and law-enforcement officials gave strong approval. Commented Phil Caruso, president of New York City's Patrolmen's Benevolent Association: "These are sound decisions, in keeping with what's happening on our streets today. We're talking about teenagers who have reached the age of intellectual maturity, who can distinguish right from wrong and who have committed heinous acts of premeditated, deliberate murder. They should suffer the full consequences." In a nationwide poll conducted for TIME and CNN last week, those responding expressed strong disapproval of the death penalty for the retarded, although a majority supported...
...program was designed to provide housing to people over age 70 who can live on their own and afford market rents. The centers do not provide medical care but do offer such services as central dining and recreation...
Dean of the Faculty Spence, a widely respected economist specializing in industrial organization, has devoted much of his first five years in office to reforming FAS's age-old tenure system...
Understandably so. It was the first concerto he ever learned, at age 12, under the watchful eye of his mother. It won him first place in a statewide Texas competition. He played it again to win the Leventritt Award in 1954 and again in Moscow. After his ticker-tape parade up Broadway, his debut recording became the first classical disk ever to reach sales of $1 million, and it featured, of course, the dear old Tchaikovsky...