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...Ryan issued a moratorium on executions. Though commendable, this action presupposes that capital punishment is a method we ought to use, that perhaps, if we could change the way it is administered, it would be a desirable method of crime control. However, it is not the potential for racial bias or the risk that people on death row may actually be innocent that makes capital punishment a less than ideal method of crime prevention. Nor is it the fact that we know that capital punishment is not useful as a deterrent. Rather, what states like Michigan and Massachusetts have recognized...

Author: By Matthew S. Vogel, | Title: A Capital Mistake | 2/7/2000 | See Source »

...talk to me. It was like The Firm. It was like a big conspiracy." Said says the reasons for her termination were never explained, but she surmises either that her extra vacation days--she took 13, three more than the allotted quota--or else a perception of anti-Israeli bias in the Middle East guide led to the cutting loose...

Author: By Adam M. Taub, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: The Lush Life at Let's Go | 2/3/2000 | See Source »

...SHARE was first established in 1994 by a group of progressive students--perhaps the only officially recognized student group whose existence is based on the alleged political bias of a specific course...

Author: By Zachary R. Mider and Daniel P. Mosteller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Curricula Wars: Are We Learning The Rest of the Story? | 2/2/2000 | See Source »

...Both the English and Economics departments have wrestled with the perception of curricular bias for years now. But the department's administrators say critics should look at Harvard in context...

Author: By Zachary R. Mider and Daniel P. Mosteller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Curricula Wars: Are We Learning The Rest of the Story? | 2/2/2000 | See Source »

...There is definitely a culture to the South that involves homecoming games and football and being active in church while you're a student, and I think it is probably reasonable to say that there is a cultural bias to coming up North. Harvard has a reputation for being very liberal and atheist and other sorts of things," says Beth A. Stewart '00, a Georgia conservative and former Undergraduate Council president...

Author: By Eric S. Barr and Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Worlds Apart: Why Harvard and the South Don't Get Along | 2/2/2000 | See Source »

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