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...this incident proved something I have known for a while, but had not forced myself to admit. As I, along with the rest of '02, prepare for the imminent plunge into the murky waters of blocking, I need to confess my one secret to my roommates: You're living with an eight-year-old. Banish me from the R-rated bathroom conversations. Stop using bananas as lecture aids. I am just not old enough to hear about that. Any aging processes, any internal maturation, any sign of leaving my Punky Brewster days behind--it's all null and void...
...this incident proved something I have known for a while, but had not forced myself to admit. As I, along with the rest of '02, prepare for the imminent plunge into the murky waters of blocking, I need to confess my one secret to my roommates: You're living with an eight-year-old. Banish me from the R-rated bathroom conversations. Stop using bananas as lecture aids. I am just not old enough to hear about that. Any aging processes, any internal maturation, any sign of leaving my Punky Brewster days behind--it's all null and void...
...confess that I have puzzled for years over the death penalty. At times I have defended it, at times argued against it. I am thus only half civilized--and to make things worse, am not even sure on which side civilization lies. If I were a state's Governor, I would have to choose one or the other on certain midnights of the year when executioners awaited my go-ahead. As it is, I have the luxury to persist in ambivalence, going case by case, preserving the option of the noose...
...definition of justice. In 1955, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam were declared not guilty by an all-white jury in less time than it takes to watch a movie. A month later, at the behest of a journalist who paid for the story, Milam felt enough public approbation to confess to the murder with impunity...
Some seniors have been working on their theses since the summer, while others have been at it for only a month and a half. But almost all seniors interviewed confess that their 50-to 80-page papers were not completed until just this week...