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I'm sentimental about many things: the lumpy feel of a baby's unused feet, the metallic smell of the air before the first snow, the last scene in It's a Wonderful life. But Valentine's Day leaves me cold. It's a holiday that has no idea of...
Monday night’s game at the TD Banknorth Garden might not count for the conference record of the Harvard men’s hockey team (8-10-3, 6-7-2 Ivy). But for its players and especially its seven seniors, the Crimson’s 3-1...
But the rambling and hyperbolic Lt. Col. Mohammad doesn't hold back. The chief of the Iraqi Police in Saha says that CLC members beat, arrested and killed a group of men last month. "We know that some of the CLC guys were criminals. But now we will include them...
Ethical Executions? If society wants and needs capital punishment, executions should be as painless as cataract surgery or baptism [Jan. 14]. Hanging, electrocution, firing squad and lethal injection all have aspects that are cruel to both criminals and those responsible for carrying out the execution. Russell Crom, Mount Prospect, Illinois...
Babysitting a convicted murderer for the rest of his life by locking him in jail is neither justice nor a good use of taxpayer money. Consider the average 12 years of appeals for death-row inmates. Those years are a money machine for lawyers and end only at the execution...