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...money to build more high-security prisons and help local governments hire more cops -- are the kind of specious gestures that are made whenever Washington tries to tap into voter sentiment on what is largely a state-and-local issue. If adopted in its present form, the bill will extend the death penalty to 47 mostly uncommon crimes and create 60 new federal crimes for acts that are already punished by state law. Among the offenses that will now be punishable by death: Fatal violence occurring on maritime platforms...
...results last week showed the contrasts and contradictions usual for a clutch of local contests. One exception: gay rights lost heavily in all three places they were put to a vote -- Cincinnati; Lewiston, Maine; and Portsmouth, New Hampshire. These are not exactly trend-setting cosmopolises, but the defeats extend an unbroken string of losses over several years that has gay activists worried. In most other areas, however, the results showed patterns were meant to be broken...
Harvard closed the gap to 6-4 by halftime, only to see Army regain the momentum and extend its lead to 10-5 by the end of the third quarter...
...Independent we're happy to endorse. He's pro-business and pro-development because he cares about the job creation they bring. McSweeney is another candidate supported by the Alliance for Change. He is also supported by the Harvard-Radcliffe Republican Club. We appreciate his plans to extend MBTA hours and improve bicycle paths in the city, and we respect his attempt to reach out to the Harvard community beyond the partisan sampling of politically active students that has helped with his campaign...
...speech will guarantee an equally vital freedom, the freedom to love one another without fear, to a ten percent segment of the population. We urge all members of the Harvard-Radcliffe community to recognize the hurtfulness and the patronizing contempt inherent in professor Mansfield's remarks. And we extend an open invitation to Harvey Mansfield to attend any one of our meetings, in order to learn about queer lifestyles and disabuse himself of the erroneous and harmful prejudices he has made it clear he harbors. Robert E. Giannino '95 Dennis K. Lin '93-'94 Natasha E. Litt '95 Co-Chairs...