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Only a few manufacturers are named in the report. An official at one company known to produce such items, the Belgian firm Sirien, denied any wrongdoing in an interview with TIME. Sirien makes products like electric-shock stun shields and S-200 projectile stun guns - devices that export manager Erwin Lafosse insists save lives. "If you want to ban electroshock pistols, then policemen will have to use firearms to defend themselves," he says. "The problem with Amnesty International is that they only see the bad side to everything. Yes, these can be used to torture someone...
...Clinton years, Senate Republicans began a kind of permanent filibuster. "Whereas the filibusters of the past were mainly the weapon of last resort," scholars Catherine Fisk and Erwin Chemerinsky noted in 1997, "now filibusters are a part of daily life." For a while, the remaining GOP moderates cried foul and joined with Democrats to break filibusters on things like campaign finance and voter registration. But in doing so, the moderates helped doom themselves. After moderates broke a 1993 filibuster on campaign finance, GOP conservatives publicly accused them of "stabbing us in the back." Their pictures were taken off the wall...
Harvard had high hopes coming into the race after a successful fall season. The two squads secured their spots at the ACCs two weeks ago at the Erwin Schell Trophy at MIT, where each Harvard team took fourth place. The top seven continued on to the championship regatta, which pitted the country’s best 18 teams against each other...
...Crimson struggled early at the 68th Erwin Schell Trophy, but Himler and fellow junior skipper Alan Palmer righted the ship, helping the squad to solid performances across the board. In the A division, Palmer led his boat to a fifth-place showing, pairing primarily with senior Winston Yan on Saturday before junior Grace Charles took over as crew on Sunday. The second duo notched four top-five finishes to lower the boat score to 148 points...
Yale had perhaps the most impressive showing at the regatta, edging Roger Williams for the team’s first Erwin Schell trophy since...