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...understanding. The soldiers exposed the men publicly and added humiliation to injury. They fostered inhuman feelings, both sexual and violent, that broke the bonds of basic human society. They wrapped the bodies of the dead in plastic and ice and left them exposed and photographed. They applied pain in excess of what was permitted or necessary for their duties. They acted in the manner of ancient tyrants...
Disappointed by sparse attendance at Harvard Stadium in games past, the juniors have co-founded “The Spectacle of Soul Project,” a non-profit organization that will provide excess football tickets to underprivileged children living in Boston’s inner-city...
...EXCESS IS WORSE...
...research community used to what has essentialy been a laissez-faire system of self-regulation, the new oversight is inherently unsettling. Many however, see in its excess something even more harmful: an attack on the value of openness intrinsic to scientific work and the intellectual culture that sustains...
Like Greg, Brian Mahler entered Harvard having played attack during his high school career. However, unlike Greg, Mahler found himself playing midfield for a majority of the season, due to injuries as well as an excess of talented attackmen...