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...same way, The Economist'sdismissive take on how Harvard should brush off its bad year and get on how Harvard should brush...
...Macias' brush with death is not as rare as it might seem. In the 1992 book In Spite of Innocence, co-author Hugo Bedau, a Tufts University philosophy professor, identified more than 400 Americans who he contends were wrongly convicted of capital crimes this century. Robinson believes many death sentences would be set aside if the defendants received the kind of no-expense-spared representation Skadden gave Macias. Not all the cases would result in findings of innocence, he says, but many would end in lesser sentences. "If a good close look were taken and there were some real lawyering...
Women and men could now sweat together atBriggs Cage and the Malkin Athletic Center. Theycould eat together after classes. And during thespring semester of 1970, they could even convenein Radcliffe bathrooms to brush their teethtogether...
...anyone thought [our] intention was to paint all federal law-enforcement officials with the same broad brush, I'm sorry," said Wayne LaPierre, the N.R.A.'s executive vice president...
...painted with utter virtuosity, one stroke for every crescent of wicker. To see such passages (others are the lacy scribbles of wet black paint that define the soft body feathers) is to realize why Goya's ability to summon up a single form with a single gesture, fusing the brush mark to the form depicted, was such an inspiration to Edouard Manet half a century later. The stiffness of death is recorded in the bird's splayed legs, thrust out as if in a last convulsion, and in its upcurving wing, like a final memory of flight...