Word: arene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
Unlike Japan, which succeeds because its strict hierarchical system matches its cultural demands for order, America is at its best when it allows its people to reinvent themselves and create new opportunities, Fallows writes. Disorder makes America great, and great Americans are the ones who aren't constrained by stagnant societal customs. Those who really contribute to American strength are the entrepreneurs like Steve Wozniak and Steven Jobs, not to mention the grunts who take jobs in the oil fields when their factories close, confident that they can start their lives anew...
...hear stories about the last Red Sox team to win the World Series, which occurred during the Wilson Administration. Woodrow Wilson. There aren't too many folks around who remember that series...
...handwriting analyst, formerly with the FBI, contends that they were written in Rose's hand. Meanwhile, as the two-day hearing adjourned last Friday, the Reds' manager was at an autograph show in Atlantic City, stoically selling his signature at $15 per scribble. "Being fair and legally correct aren't always the same thing," Judge Norbert A. Nadel noted, though hoping to be both. He promised a decision ^ on Sunday. Rose's hearing before Giamatti was scheduled for Monday. Nadel did not have to say the stakes were even higher than the legacy of a legend, knowing that Rose...
...world where a great number of children arrive at school undernourished, neglected and in poor health, many feel that schools have little choice but to try to fill the gap left by the collapse of families and other social supports. "Parents just aren't there today," says David Lawrence, principal of the Thomas J. Quirk Middle School in Hartford, Conn. "We still are. The kids can't be left to founder...