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...evidence that this theoretically possible kind of agonizing execution has ever actually happened - urged precisely the opposite. He would like for the Supreme Court to reconsider the entire death penalty and find the whole thing cruel and unusual. Like former justices Harry Blackmun, Lewis Powell and Sandra Day O'Connor before him, Stevens has concluded as he nears the end of his career that America's modern death penalty is too complicated and too tangled ever to work efficiently or fairly. "The time for a dispassionate, impartial comparison of the enormous costs that death penalty litigation imposes on society with...
...Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger dropped by New York City. He was heading home to the Vatican from a conference in Dallas and had saved a day to tour what was then still regularly called the Big Apple. According to Father James O'Connor, who was acting as his chauffeur, Ratzinger sat in the front seat, the better to take in the hustle and buzz of the city. They visited the (Episcopal) Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the medievally furnished Cloisters museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. On the way to Kennedy Airport, the car stalled halfway through the Midtown...
...Championships in St. Louis, Mo., leading a Big Ten group that overwhelmed the field with 10 teams in the top 17.Sending only two grapplers to the tournament, the Harvard squad had little interest in the team competition. But freshman Corey Jantzen (141 lbs) and sophomore J.P. O’Connor (149) felt the sting of the dominant conference, both falling to Big Ten opponents.O’Connor, ranked third in the tournament and harboring legitimate hopes of a national championship, breezed through the early rounds. Following a bye, the EIWA runner-up earned a major decision over Chattanooga?...
...violin was the instrument thatcarried our culture,” Mark O’Connorsaid in a recent talk at Sanders Theatre.“The stories of what our country wentthrough are on this instrument.”O’Connor, a professional violinistand fi ddler himself, has joined previousmasters as one of the storytellers ofour country. He has focused his musicalcareer on celebrating and developingAmerican music, and he shared hisstory at the event, co-sponsored by theOffi ce for the Arts’ Learning from Performersseries and the Harvard AmericanMusic Association.The embodiment of the Americanoptimism...
...tally, Harvard came out hard in the third period and didn’t rest until it had sucked the life out of Clarkson.The Crimson got its only power-play opportunity of the afternoon at 3:00 in the third, when Golden Knight Courtney O’Connor was sent to the box for interference.Harvard didn’t waste the advantage. At 4:11, sophomore defenseman Kathryn Farni sent a slapshot in from the blue line. Though Clarkson goalie Eve Grandmont-Berube made the initial save, senior tri-captain Caitlin Cahow picked up the rebound...