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...Justice Anthony Kennedy, for one thing. While Kennedy voted with Scalia in 1989, he wrote a very different majority opinion this time around. Why did Kennedy change his mind? Legal tradition invites him to do so. Since 1958 the court has applied a flexible standard to interpreting the Eighth Amendment's ban on "cruel and unusual punishments." What we mean by the phrase, wrote then Chief Justice Earl Warren in Trop v. Dulles, depends on "the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society...
Faced with the prospect of losing an eighth Ivy League contest for the first time in school history, Princeton (15-12, 6-7 Ivy) played its best game of the year in routing the Crimson (12-15, 7-7) 66-44 at Jadwin Gym. Four Tigers scored in double figures, as the team collectively caught fire to hand Harvard its 16th straight loss in Princeton’s home...
...meeting took place on the grounds of a school called the Bar Sauri Primary School, where headmistress Anne Marcelline Omolo shepherds hundreds of schoolchildren through primary education and the travails of daily life. Despite disease, orphanhood and hunger, all 33 of last year's eighth-grade class passed the Kenyan national secondary-school exams. On a Sunday last July, we saw why. On their "day off" from school, this year's class of eighth-graders sat at their desks from 6:30 a.m. until 6 p.m. preparing months in advance for this year's national examinations in November. Unfortunately, many...
...discipline has been a hallmark of the Clarkson defense all season. It ranks way down the list at 31st in the nation in penalty minutes allowed, with 8.1 per game. That kind of patience combined with the standout play of McDonald has helped the Golden Knights rise to eighth in country in scoring defense with just 2.12 goals allowed per game, the fewest for any team not in the top ten in the polls...
...precariously on the brink of the school’s worst Ivy League season. Since the team joined the Ancient Eight in 1956-57, Princeton has never had a losing record in league play—a monument to excellence that Harvard can smash by giving the Tigers their eighth defeat of the year...