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After suffering two tough losses at William and Mary and Virginia Commonwealth University, Harvard women's tennis coasted over Richmond, 7-2, in its first home match of the spring season at Palmer-Dixton Courts...
Keeping a promise he made after last year's failed attempt to bring capital punishment back to the Commonwealth, Governor A. Paul Cellucci--now more confused than ever--has proposed a broad bill to make conviction of some 16 categories of murder punishable by death. Together with Lieutenant Governor Jane Swift, Cellucci seems to be relying solely on the horror of isolated incidents to win support for a cause which lacks both practical and ideological grounds...
...recent years. Thus capital punishment isn't necessary to deter crime, as Cellucci claims. The solution to lowering crime rates is to stop crimes before they are committed--through a well-trained and well-equipped police force--rather than execute those already convicted. To put it bluntly, the Commonwealth is doing fine without the death penalty...
...personally very supportive of the test," Hart says. "It is a relief that we have a standard that we, as parents, can look at to compare to other schools and other cities throughout the Commonwealth...
...third round of MCAS tests approaches, teachers and education officials alike are waiting to see what effect the tests will have on the future of standardized testing in the Commonwealth...