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...afraid that your editorial (“Justice Served in New Haven,” Feb. 20) did not grasp what I was trying to do in my testimony last week for Antonio C. Lasaga. There was considerable pressure to impose an unreasonably long prison sentence just because Lasaga was a distinguished professor at Yale. I was trying to counteract this. I was not successful. The State of Connecticut imposed a 20-year prison sentence. This was more than three times the sentence recently imposed in Massachusetts on a hockey dad for killing another hockey dad; it was twice...
Knotted with the Pride at 27, the Crimson let the first game slip out of its grasp, conceding three consecutive points as freshman outside hitter Juan Ramos committed a service error and the Pride tallied two kills...
...principle that all Americans are equal before the law is far more valuable to society than any findings Lasaga might have been able to make if he had been given a shorter sentence. It is rather surprising and distinctly disturbing that a Harvard professor was not able to grasp this basic concept...
...characters. The setup and deliverance are effective in raising questions in audience members’ heads. Its dark ending leaves a haunting quality in viewers that sticks as they contemplate the significance of events. Only after tossing the characters and actions back and forth does the viewer grasp a meaning for it all, but the result is well worth the effort...
...Qassam-2, but that's not enough for Israel, which will continue to hold the PA responsible for the missile threat. An escalation of violence may leave Arafat further isolated by the U.S. and Israel, perhaps putting his prospects of negotiating his way to Palestinian statehood irrevocably beyond his grasp...