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Harvard Ballet Company (HBC) organized its spring show, performed on April 25 and 26, around its eponymous title: the second half is truly “From the Wings” of the first. The former provided excerpts from “Swan Lake,” while the latter...
After four weeks of delays, the election results are finally set to be announced in Zimbabwe following intense international and domestic pressure. The past month has witnessed violence and arrests that the opposition parties as well as foreign observers and human rights agencies claim are politically motivated. The main opposition...
In those upcoming trials, the defense may try to use Davis's statements to show that the Pentagon crossed a variety of legal red lines. In Mohammed's case, however, that will include the issue of torture. The CIA held him in a secret prison for years, and has admitted...
...states that still use the death penalty, employs a cocktail of three different drugs, one of which is pancuronium bromide, a paralytic drug that is intended to prevent convulsions when the lethal chemical is inserted intravenously to the victim. Because the drug induces a paralysis, the executioners cannot determine if the inmate is undergoing any sort of pain. He is rendered unable to move, let alone scream—potentially silencing the most cruel of state actions. Given the Court’s unwillingness to recognize the cruelty and inhumanity inherent in capital punishment, this most recent ruling is particularly...
There is a famous saying, attributed alternately to Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw, that goes: “If you’re going to tell people the truth, you’d better make them laugh; otherwise they’ll kill you.” For South...