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...portable stereo. Benshoof read several quotations, including one from Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel that said, “The opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.” After the reading, the group launched the coffin into the Charles River and then tried to burn pages from the majority opinion. After one student successfully lit a piece of paper on fire, Benshoof told him, “That’s the best thing you’ve done in law school.” Asked why she decided to protest today, Sydney B. Schaub...
With Baghdad continuing to burn and the CIA still broken, you would think there would be more important issues for the Democrats and the White House to fight over than whether or not to make the intelligence budget public. But that is precisely what is at issue in a nasty spat currently going on between Senate Democrats and Republicans over the 2007 intelligence authorization...
Those who remained, 10,000 strong, gathered one more time on Tuesday night, when the winds at last had faded and the candles could burn, turning the entire drill field a glowing Hokie orange. When the commemoration was over, students stayed. Many just weren't ready to go home yet, or be by themselves...
Biofuels are touted as a planet-friendly substitute for coal and oil. While ethanol (made from corn or sugarcane) and biodiesel (made from soybean or palm oil) burn cleaner and produce less greenhouse gas than fossil fuels do, critics warn that biofuels have their own dark side. Cuba's Fidel Castro even called powering cars with food "sinister" policy, but here's a more level-headed breakdown of the impact and limitations of farming for fuel...
...described their injuries as "brutal," with each of the victims sustaining at least three bullet wounds. Of course, plenty of people fail tests and end romances and even suffer unspeakable abuse as children. And while there are a lot of narcissists in the world, many of whom crash and burn in their personal and professional lives, only an infinitesimal fraction of even the most unstable people lash out in remotely as violent a way as mass killers do. So what should we look for in people for whom such a homicidal rage is a real risk...