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...surprising that the people in charge of China's public image would want to trumpet this development: China's enthusiasm for capital punishment has long been a target for international criticism of its human rights record. The authorities deem China's annual tally of executions a state secret, but even the total reported in the Chinese media far exceeds that of other countries where capital punishment is practiced. In 2005, Amnesty International counted 1,770 execution announcements in Chinese papers, and a further 3,797 death sentences. (The U.S. executed 60 in 2005.) One reason for the high rates...
...Wallace ’08, simplifies the process, offering visitors the chance to answer the age-old question of who is the fairest (co-ed) of them all. A combination of Facebook and HotOrNot.com, the Web site juxtaposes pictures of hot girls; visitors click on the one they deem hotter. “There are all these groups on Facebook like ‘The Hottest Freshman Girls’ and we wanted to democratize that process,” Wallace says. Wallace started the Web site with Hudson W. Harr, a friend from University of Florida using software from...
...have the chance to bury the bill, and we hope they take it. Unsurprisingly, the Turkish government reacted swiftly against this bill, as have Turkish emigrants all over Europe. Some Turkish parliament members proposed a law criminalizing the denial of the French colonial genocide of Algerians (historians prefer to deem it colonial warfare). In France this weekend, vandals defaced one of the many existing monuments to the massacred Armenians. These actions must be understood in a larger context. Under the proposed French bill, Armenian genocide deniers would face fines and prison terms equivalent to those mandated by anti-Holocaust-denying...
...cost of underage student safety since, quite simply, a ban on private alcohol does not mean that underage drinking will not happen. Instead, drinking will be shifted forwards to pre-game binges in the privacy of student dorms, where underage revelers will likely imbibe as much as they deem necessary to keep them merry throughout the Game. Worse, this kind of pre-gaming will be more common among underclassmen, namely new freshmen with relatively little experience in drinking safely, who are less likely to know their own limits...
...shortcut to what we think is right, what job recruiters deem productive, or live at that amazing lab we always aspired to run? Because college is the time for introspection, inquiry, and examination: this is the time to leave the cave. People fall deeper into midlife crises when they fail to find their role in the world. That is precisely what a liberal arts education strives to address. So that your fourth decade won’t find you buying a Porsche but feeling empty inside...