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...staff editorial, "After Grapes: Where Is Our Conscience?", The Crimson editors commit the unfortunate sin of condescension. The entire grape referendum has seen too much of this disgusting attitude toward students. Perhaps with the end of the referendum it's time for it to stop. It was bad enough when Harvard Dining Services started referring to the grape issue as the "Great Grape Referendum." "Look, look," the capital letters in the title seemed to be saying, "I am the most important political issue in the world." Students were told that this issue should take precedence over all others just...
Index Funds in Disguise Why aren't your mutuals beating the market? Fund managers don't have the guts to commit to a plan. Why so-called "managed" funds are often kitchen-sink hodgepodges--and why they're no better than those index funds you were trying to avoid. In Money Daily...
...death penalty deters crime." According to this argument, criminals who would otherwise commit atrocious murders would refrain from such action out of fear of being put to death by the government. The electric chair, according to many death penalty proponents, will cast a long shadow of intimidation upon potential murderers...
Harvard comes out of the weekend tourney knowing that it must shoot much better, make fewer turnovers and commit fewer fouls to have a successful season. The loss to Maryland could potentially hurt the Crimson's chances for a decent seed in the NCAA Tournament, especially after Holy Cross played the Terps to within eight points...
...worthy of First Amendment protection. "There is nothing good for society about this book," insists Rodney Alan Smolla, a law professor at the College of William and Mary, who argued their case. "People cannot openly traffic in information that has the sole purpose of assisting others to commit murder." Along with its grisly instructions, Smolla points out, Hit Man has such reprehensible details as a suggested price scale for contract killings: $75,000 to $100,000 for a county sheriff; $250,000 for a federal judge...