Word: citizens
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...That's a Rashomon story. The only mitigating factor is that all villagers were suspect in war zones. We were fighting an enemy army, but we were also fighting villagers. These things don't take place in slow motion. I know Kerrey, and I think he's an upstanding citizen. It would be hard for me to accept that he cold-bloodedly killed villagers. He was a lieutenant on one of his first combat missions. There could have been an element of panic. If it went as he says?it was a confusing night and they were fired on?then...
...basic premise behind the death penalty—that those who take an innocent life deserve to lose their own—implodes when confronted with the statistical certitude of conviction error. If a citizen should lose his life for killing an innocent person, what should be the state’s punishment for the same offense? Certainly someone must pay for the murder of an innocent woman or man. But who? The judge and jury? The lawyers and police? All of us? From the sheer number of wrongly convicted citizens, we know that innocent people will be?...
...idea that voting defines political activism is something I strongly disagree with," said Cambridge citizen Robert Winters...
...council passed a similar home rule petition last November to allow non-citizen immigrants with children in Cambridge schools to vote in School Committee elections. That petition has not yet received state approval...
...denial of this contact divorces Harvard students from the experiences and events that every other citizen has witnessed or heard about, and leaves on a book-smart island...