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...union of a man and a woman. Patrick, who graduated from Harvard Law School in 1982, worked as a lawyer for most of his career. In 1985, while an attorney for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, he helped overturn a death sentence for Carl Ray Songer, who was convicted of killing a state trooper. Healey ripped into Patrick’s role in the case with a controversial campaign ad in October, accusing Patrick of taking a soft stance on crime. Unlike Healey, Patrick opposes the death penalty. Despite the negative campaign ads, Patrick continues...
...what is known as nominative determinism--the common case of people whose names echo their jobs. There is the director of penal reform Frances Crook, the marine biologist Steven Haddock. American culture has been rife with such synchronicity--pitcher Rollie Fingers, Senator George McGovern. "Are these whimsicalities of chance," Carl Jung once asked, "or the suggestive effects of the name...
...wrong (September); in Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast (due in January) by self-described "atheist-reductionist-materialist" biologist Lewis Wolpert, religion is one of those impossible things; Victor Stenger, a physicist-astronomer, has a book coming out titled God: The Failed Hypothesis. Meanwhile, Ann Druyan, widow of archskeptical astrophysicist Carl Sagan, has edited Sagan's unpublished lectures on God and his absence into a book, The Varieties of Scientific Experience, out this month...
...people surveyed criticized the negative tone that Healey’s campaign has taken in recent weeks. The ads under fire attack Patrick, a former Dunster House resident, for his soft stance on crime by drawing on the Democratic candidate’s involvement in the cases of Carl Ray Songer, who killed a patrolman in Florida, and Benjamin LaGuer, a convicted rapist. Specifically, Healey, an alum of South House, now Cabot, has criticized Patrick for overturning Songer’s death sentence when the candidate was a lawyer for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
...eight of his last nine appearances....Despite seeing both an extra point and a field goal blocked, junior kicker Matt Schindel moved into a tie for fifth-place all-time in Harvard scoring on Saturday, with 168 career points. His next point will separate him from former Crimson receiver Carl Morris ’03 for sole possession of fifth on the chart....The final attendance at rain-soaked Memorial Field was just 2,028 for a stadium equipped to hold more than 13,000 spectators.—Staff writer Malcom A. Glenn can be reached at mglenn@fas.harvard.edu...