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This past Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of good judicial sense. In two separate, simultaneously issued rulings, the court determined that federal judges ought to have the freedom to hand down just sentences, even if they contradict federal sentencing guidelines. One of the court’s decisions focused on the disparities between jail sentences given to users of crack cocaine and those doled out to users of the drug in powder form. Following the court’s lead, the U.S. Sentencing Commission changed its sentencing guidelines to close the gap between the punishments given...
...Brian W. Casey, the FAS associate dean for academic affairs. “There was a conscious decision around the year 2000 to expand the tenured ranks.” Tenured or tenure-track professors make up 62 percent of the Faculty at Harvard. Though Harvard might claim to contradict the study’s trend, John W. Curtis, one of the report’s authors, said that universities like Harvard have a lot of teaching done by graduate students. “It’s becoming much more common for graduate students to become the sole instructor...
...they were negligent in that regard.” For her part, Martel said that she disagreed with the UC’s administrative relations. “It seems like what the UC does is try to ignore what University Hall says and look ridiculous, or try to contradict University Hall and just be ignored,” she said. Martel added that she would emulate the negotiation style of former UC President John S. Haddock ’07 in dealing with administrators—which she characterized as “let’s be nice...
Keller may be convinced, but others aren't. Sediment samples off the coasts of Senegal, Florida and Antarctica contradict her timeline, suggesting the mass extinction came right after the asteroid impact. "We've got beautiful sediments," says Brian Huber, a curator of paleontology at the Smithsonian Institution. "We have a continuous record of the event." Even 65 million years after the crime, the identity of the real perp is once again in dispute. And with eyewitnesses out of the question, the debate could go on for a while. India 65 million years ago and today...
...leave.” “I think they needed to demonstrate change, and I don’t think you can have a change without it being personified,” Card said in an interview with The Crimson. Card’s remarks appear to contradict the official explanation given by President George W. Bush for Card’s departure on March 28, 2006. When his chief of staff announced his resignation, Bush said that Card had taken the initiative to leave his post, and that the departure was not motivated by politics...