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...Worcester, Mass. this past weekend to compete at the EARC Eastern Sprints. Competition took place on Sunday at the six-lane Lake Quinsigamond course with heats in the morning followed by finals in the afternoon. The Crimson heavies walked away team champions having won the varsity and freshman eight events. Meanwhile, the Harvard lightweights saw the end to a thus-far perfect season for the varsity and first freshman boats, leaving them anxious for another racing opportunity at IRAs...
...acknowledging the value of my work and reshaping it by modifying my activities and interests. I realized that I had actually contributed—to varying degrees—to The Crimson for four years and to Stories for two. I played violin throughout those years. After eight semesters of shopping classes, I found an interest in Israeli culture, politics, and society that I turned into a thesis...
Murder is a shocking crime in the most typical of cases. But when a child kills another child, all sense of morality seems to be distorted, and no reaction is unequivocally justified. At the age of 10 years old, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson were each sentenced to eight years in prison for their gruesome murder of two-year-old James Bulger. Now, nine years since his release, Venables is back in custody, and the public demands to know the reason. The questions that surface query the criminal’s right to anonymity as well as appropriate prison sentences...
...Saturday, junior Jessica Fronk nabbed eight points for Harvard in the women’s javelin throw by grabbing second place, while freshmen Ashtynn Baltimore and Olivia Weeks placed fourth and seventh, respectively, in the women’s long jump...
...Venables’s and Thompson’s young ages, the legal age for criminal responsibility in England is 10 years old, and psychiatrists ruled that both the children could distinguish between right and wrong. In spite of general cries for vengeance and dismay over the seemingly lenient eight-year sentence, many murderers do not in fact serve much longer, and life sentence is far from the ubiquitous punishment. Although a 10-year-old, according to the legal system and psychiatric analysis, is considered old enough to be responsible, it is also important to consider the purposes of prison...