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...playing at Hurley Street Park and apparently splashed one or two boys that were also playing in the sprinkler area. One of the boys splashed the son back before leaving to pick up a baseball bat. After returning, he walked back to the son and threatened to commit an act of violence. The father intervened, explaining his son's problem, and the suspect stated, " I don't care; I'm going to bash his face...
...spending time with a death-row inmate he represented in 1996: "When you shake someone's hand, you start thinking." John DiIulio, the conservative crime scholar, has also changed his mind. 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," he says. "Do the math...
Because the University expended such a great deal of effort in convening and supporting the committee, administrators seem reluctant to commit to another lengthy review and deliberation process...
...about to commit a Harvard heresy. Hold on to your hats. I don't have a job. I'm not going to be paid a lot of money to do anything; in fact, I'm not going to be paid anything to do nothing. I don't even really know where I want to live, what I want to do or how I'm going...
...media a release valve for reporting the types of racially charged stories that have become taboo. "In the first 80 pages of a newspaper, writers feel they can't report anything that reflects badly on minorities. So on our sports pages we're regularly reading about athletes who commit violence against women, but the stories don't mention that over 8,000 such acts occur across the country each day. Or that the rate of spousal abuse among professional athletes is actually lower than it is for society at large...