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Chain gangs further differ from the death penalty because they add a more humanitarian overtone to the right to live. Maintaining the ban on chain gangs would guarantee the right to live under decent conditions. Even if convicted criminals lose their rights to voting and social services, they are still protected from "cruel and unusual punishment...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: The Shackles of Inhumanity | 6/30/1995 | See Source »

Generally, the first episode of the orientationweek placement test series is the famousExpository Writing Test, in which first yearsstruggle to recall their admissions essays, whichmust have impressed someone over at Byerly Hall.Now they must once again impress someone--thistime in the Expos Department--so that they can getinto a decent semester-long writing class andavoid Expos 10, the year-long alternative for theless prosaically-inclined...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Welcome to the Jungle | 6/27/1995 | See Source »

...Grady's idea; this hero has his heart in the right place. He has repeatedly expressed his bewilderment at the treatment he has received and has given all credit to the Marines. Last Wednesday was the first night since his plane was shot down that he got a decent night's sleep. The attention "just kind of wore him out," explained his father. "He wants his identity back. He wants to be a normal human being." But the spinmeisters, the public and the media may not allow that, and they are harder to escape than the Serbs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GLOMMING ON TO A HERO | 6/26/1995 | See Source »

...unflappable and he was always consistently generous, consistently decent with other people," says Doermann, who is now the president of the Busch foundation in Minneapolis...

Author: By Marios V. Broustas, | Title: Jewett Leaves Deanship in Wake of Randomization Decision | 6/8/1995 | See Source »

Those are solid, decent numbers, but the not at Winters' or Colligan's (40 points) level. As a result, the Crimson could only look to those two if it needed offense. In the UNH game, Harvard needed Winters to score seven goals to hold off a Wildcat rally, and in the Yale game, Colligan led a comeback that fell short when her last goal was disallowed...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: W. Lax Has Trouble | 6/8/1995 | See Source »

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