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...There was never any green light [from me] to commit atrocities. Between me and my God, I have a clear conscience," de Klerk told the crowd...
...organization be blamed if its incendiary literature and suggestive website encourage a member to commit a crime? Cambridge residents Barbara and Robert Curley answer yes. Their 10-year-old son Jeffrey was murdered in 1997 by two pedophiles who befriended the boy in hopes of having sex with him. After being lured into the men's car with the promise of a new bike, Jeffrey refused to comply with their requests for sex. Charles Jaynes and accomplice Salvatore Sicari, Curley's neighbors, then killed him and sexually abused his dead body. After having been convicted in 1998, the murderers...
...free speech is completely reasonable. Unfortunately, some Americans abuse their rights, thus restricting us all. Need convincing? Try threatening to kill the President. Try yelling "Fire!" in a crowded building. Whether you know it or not, these are all restrictions on your rights. But unless you are trying to commit treason or cause a stampede, you'll probably never have to worry. Similarly, if you aren't promoting the sexual abuse of children, or an equally heinous crime, you don't have to worry about your right to free speech being violated...
...performances and athletic events. We've already had success with the student-faculty dining program that allows professors to swipe into the dining halls and eat with students. The program was created last spring with the support of Dean of Harvard College Harry R. Lewis '68. We should all commit to eating at least one meal with a professor over the course of this semester...
...switch? In the course of his extensive research studying crime, he changed his mind, a change of heart he laid out in a 1997 editorial for the conservative Wall Street Journal. His beef is that death row is a crapshoot because there is no logical relationship between those who commit capital crimes and those who end up facing death. Of the roughly 600,000 homicides committed in the U.S. since 1976, only 639 convicts have been executed. "It's become a lottery as to who gets killed," DiIulio told TIME last year. "Do the math...