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...comes to crime and punishment, we forcefully believe that the government has no right to put a convict’s neck on the chopping block. And most of Massachusetts agrees. So we are thankful that Gov. Mitt Romney’s proposal to reinstate capital punishment in the Commonwealth met sound defeat in the Massachusetts House of Representatives on Tuesday. But there’s no doubt that Romney’s primary motivation for introducing this hopeless bill was not so much to debate the criminal code as it was to appeal to the national conservative electorate that...
...Holyoke Center. The group ignored a warning by Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd and two University police officers that they were not registered protesters and were not permitted to proceed. The protesters then rode buses to the Harvard Club on the corner of Mass. Ave. and Commonwealth Ave., where a large crowd assembled. Courtney Snegroff, an organizer for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 615, estimated that more than 200 workers and their families participated. The group marched up and down in front of the Harvard Club, waving signs, shouting slogans, and banging percussive instruments?...
...Crimson revealed that Vick had been convicted of rape in April 1991, and had an outstanding warrant against him because he had failed to register with SORB as a sex offender. In court last Thursday, Vick admitted to sufficient facts—in effect, acknowledging that the Commonwealth has sufficient evidence to find him guilty and forgoing a trial—on all three counts with which he was charged, according to Middlesex District Attorney spokeswoman Emily LaGrassa. Cambridge District Court Judge Severlin Singleton sentenced Vick to three concurrent sentences in a house of corrections: 30 days for his failure...
...Memorial Drive—which usually forbids construction traffic—is part of the state-managed Charles River Reservation, the University appealed to the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) to allow its trucks to travel along a 1,800-yard path before turning onto Cowperthwaite. But the Commonwealth ultimately denied that request. City Councillor Anthony D. Galluccio said he had expected that Harvard’s political clout would have prevailed on the DCR to obtain an exception. “The real disappointment was an assumption that...Harvard’s contacts at the state level?...
...police department.” HUPD officers individually, rather than collectively, enjoy police powers—the authority to stop, question, detain, formally arrest, use force, and interrogate suspects—not because University Hall wills it to be so, but because they are recognized police under the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and its officers are deputized by the Middlesex and Suffolk County sheriffs and the colonel of the state police. If HUPD seeks this extra power—which few other campus police offficers enjoy—it is only fair that they accept the reporting responsibilities when they swear...