Word: certainly
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...exclusion of Cambridge citizens from Harvard's supposed "open housing" may be the result of a bureaucratic bungle. When the University decided this summer to market the apartments through the Harvard Housing Office--which is open exclusively to Harvard affiliates for a certain time-period--maybe someone failed to realize this action would make the apartments inaccessible to Cambridge residents who are not connected with the University. If so, we urge corrective action be taken. No one will deny that Harvard has added dynamism to Cambridge, but in the process of building an academic community, the University must ensure that...
...campaign that has attracted nation-wide attention because Noble herself is a lesbian, she has affirmed her abilities as a pragmatic, tough politician. As a state representative for Boston, Noble is a lot more liberal than most of Beacon Hill, but she has been willing to compromise on certain issues in order to be effective...
...protections of the offender. One index of the respectability of the tougher line: Edward Kennedy, who owns the most liberal voting record in the Senate, is the co-author of the revised U.S. Criminal Code that would, among other things, abolish parole boards and indeterminate sentences. There is a certain wistfulness in such measures. Says L. Ray Patterson, dean of the Emory School of Law in Atlanta: "The concern of the public is not so much for vindictive retribution, but for some retribution...
...meaning, it must carry predictable consequences. And the law for some years has not been certain whether it meant to be a guilt-ridden social worker or a hanging judge. The erratic justice that emerges from the badly overburdened system has been further complicated by the society's spasms of conscience. These arise from the larger unsolved questions of social justice in the U.S., principally poverty and racism. But those questions cannot be solved by a mindless leniency toward criminals in the courts. That policy invites contempt from the poor, who are much more likely than others...
Still, scientists are by no means certain that nature will follow their scenarios. The earth's climate is the product of such a complex mix of factors that it becomes impossibly difficult to isolate just one. For example, climatologists do not yet know the exact role of atmospheric dust. Dust can cool the earth by screening out warming sunlight, as has been noted after major volcanic eruptions like that of Krakatoa in 1883, yet also act as an atmospheric cap keeping in heat. Says Scripps' Charles Keeling: "Dust impedes radiation in both directions. We do not know...