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...Mass incarceration is not making us safer, but less so. It is nearly impossible for people with criminal records to get jobs, so they often return to crime in order to support themselves and their families. Sixty percent of former offenders recidivate (commit another crime) within 3 years of their release from prison. One in 10 black children have a parent in prison; one in three black children whose parents have no gone to college will lose a parent to prison by the time they are 14. The unemployment rate for black men is estimated between...
...parody the Crimson’s production schedule by rarely and sporadically publishing issues; we also love your strategy of choosing good Onion articles, taking out words at random, and filling them in like Mad Libs.College Events Board Apology Letter Team: Although members of the CEB seem to only commit five hours a semester to ruining life at Harvard, we assume your damage control is a much greater time commitment, and cannot accept your offer at this time.Our Queen Drew Faust’s Christmas Cards: By bearing Christmas cheer, we can change Harvard from a “republic...
...AIDS activists will depend more upon the respect for privacy and due process inherent in Islamic legal culture and scripture than the right for men to have sex with other men.Only one passage in the Qu’ran explicitly acknowledge homosexuality: “If two men commit unchastity with each other, punish them both. And if they repent and improve, then let them be. Lo! Allah is Relenting, Mericful. (4.16)” Since no method of punishment is indicated, Shar’ia law leaves punishment to the judiciary. In the case of Senegal, Penal Article...
Borderlines are the patients psychologists fear most. As many as 75% hurt themselves, and approximately 10% commit suicide - an extraordinarily high suicide rate (by comparison, the suicide rate for mood disorders is about 6%). Borderline patients seem to have no internal governor; they are capable of deep love and profound rage almost simultaneously. They are powerfully connected to the people close to them and terrified by the possibility of losing them - yet attack those people so unexpectedly that they often ensure the very abandonment they fear. When they want to hold, they claw instead. Many therapists have no clue...
...Turkish officials are pushing for an international peacekeeping force to supervise a new cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas and have offered to commit troops. Ankara has also offered its services to incoming U.S. President Barack Obama to act as a mediator between the U.S. and Iran. "If Obama pursues new policies in the Middle East, as is expected, Turkey could be a key supporting partner in building peace," says Alpay. Which is just how the Ottoman pashas of old would have...