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...this is providing legal traction for constitutional lawyers. The most obvious point of attack is the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. One suit involving prisoners in a Wisconsin supermax has led to rulings requiring that mentally ill inmates be kept out of such facilities. The state is challenging the decisions, and arguments will be heard in February, but at least six other states have fought similar suits, and all of them have failed. "So far, the prisoners are batting a thousand on the issue of mentally ill inmates," says David Fathi, a senior staff counsel with...
...these efforts seem to be making a difference in the lives of the children. School is safe, attendance is high, and a sense of community is growing. The school graduated its first eighth-grade class last spring...
...until the eighth President, Martin Van Buren, that America aimed lower. Van Buren was a smooth self-made man from upstate New York who clambered to leadership first in his state, then in the Democratic Party nationwide. He was a wire puller and wheeler-dealer. Former President John Quincy Adams praised his "calmness," "gentleness" and "discretion," though not his "profound dissimulation" and "fawning servility." Van Buren was a pol, first, last and always. He showed that intrigue and the art of popularity were now enough to win the White House. Since 1841, most successful presidential candidates have passed...
...Texas city home to a famous standoff 5 Eighth letter of the Greek alphabet 10 Each 14 Modern Persia 15 Home of Caesar’s Palace 16 Need for plugging in a computer 17 *Golfer Woods actually not winning a tournament? 19 202 in Roman numerals 20 Power 21 ___ Kosh 23 Simple sneaker 24 Setting for some of “A Winter’s Tale” 28 Finale 29 George W.’s toilet? 34 “American ___” (popular show) 35 “Gloria in Excelsis...
When the Rhodes committee in Zimbabwe awarded Benjamin L. Robinson ’06-’07 a Rhodes Scholarship last month, he became the eighth Harvard student this year to receive the prestigious academic award. The Rhodes Scholarship, created from the endowment of Cecil J. Rhodes, a British philanthropist who earned much of his fortune through colonial activities in Africa, provides Scholars with funding for two to three years of study at Oxford University in England. Robinson, a joint Social Studies and Germanic Languages and Literatures concentrator, plans to study Philosophy at Oxford, even though he says that...