Word: falling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Whether Cellucci admits it or not, no matter how good the system is, there will always be those who fall through the cracks. This danger is heightened infinitely due to the irrevocability of the act. Under the death penalty, not only are innocents sometimes convicted, but it is extremely difficult to enforce a universal standard for those who are rightly convicted. Life without parole--a severe punishment which still recognizes human fallibility--is a more just alternative...
...interests: reducing their teaching duties and the number of committees they sit on, ensuring the quality of their classrooms and trying to go on leave more often. Students have even simpler demands: small classes with good professors and no lotteries and useful academic and other advising. These interests together fall under a single umbrella: hiring more, hiring more and hiring more--professors, teaching fellows, assistants...
...administration, by contrast, is interested in many things, but which all fall, more or less, into two (unordered) categories: preserving the Harvard name and reputation and raising money, lots and lots of money...
...4x400 meter relay, an event that Harvard expected to perform well in, did not pan out for the Crimson. A fall at the beginning of the second leg of the relay kept the Crimson, seeded second in the event, from contention. But the 4x800 meter relay team redeemed Harvard with a fourth-place finish...
...thick and fast, you just have to stop for a second and say "Gee whiz." The companies that make computers and game consoles are pushing one another to build machines that do more and more, faster and faster, and as a result the past week has a seen the fall of a series of previously unbreakable technological barriers. Here?s a quick rundown of some of the science that?s getting dropped...