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...phases of theater” at Harvard. Sited on Holyoke Street, the new location “literally and figuratively made arts more central at the University,” she said. Just as the ribbon was about to be cut, two members of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals burst onto the stage, praising Faust’s orange top and Pilbeam’s red tie, but criticizing Smith’s wardrobe. Before leaving the stage, they handed Faust an oversized pair of scissors with which to cut the ribbon. Following the ribbon cutting, Robert Brustein moderated a discussion...
...That attitude led to quite a few excesses. Ten years ago, when a malfunctioning electric chair caused a prisoner's leather mask to burst into flames during his execution, Florida's Democratic Attorney General Robert Butterworth joked that the problems with "Old Sparky" - the chair's nickname - were actually a good deterrent to murder. Things didn't improve much after then Governor Jeb Bush and the Republicans took power in Tallahassee in 1999, especially at the Department of Juvenile Justice. In June of 2003, Omar Paisley, 17, an inmate at a juvenile detention center in Miami that was filled...
...They all burst out laughing,” he recalls...
...finally closed the door on the Leopards’ chances.With the Crimson clinging to a 20-17 advantage in the late stages of the fourth quarter and Lafayette deep in Harvard territory, Leopards quarterback Mike DiPaola dropped back to pass on a third-and-one. Junior linebacker Glenn Dorris burst through the line and laid a big hit on DiPaola, who avoided a sack by making an ill-advised and wobbly throw that came up well short of the nearest receiver.“I started running after him, and as soon as I grabbed onto him, I knew...
Take the schools case from the 2006-07 term. On June 28, as the term was ending in a burst of 5-to-4 decisions, the court ruled on a controversy involving public schools in Seattle and Jefferson County, Ky. Parents had sued to end policies that classified children by race and--occasionally--used this data in determining which school students would attend. The goal of the programs was to make schools racially diverse even if neighborhoods were...