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...every step of the way, Wilson was offered - and refused - a lesser sentence in exchange for an admission of guilt. He refused to accept a plea before the trial, and refused again before sentencing. "I mean what kind of chance would he have in life, if he came out of prison as a sex offender for the rest of his life," said Wilson's mother, Juannessa Bennett, in an interview with TIME earlier this year...
...self-professed “banana”—that is, yellow on the outside and unrepentantly white on the inside. Growing up 1.5-generation Asian American (born abroad, raised domestically) is a strange splice of cultural bravado and insecurity. Perhaps it is this realization of guilt that is driving me to write and to think a little more about the identity conflicts that plague recent American arrivals...
...Reservation Road and Things We Lost in the Fire, take up this theme. In the former, a lawyer named Dwight Arno (Mark Ruffalo) is rushing to return his son to his estranged wife, when his car hits and kills a small boy. Panicked, he flees the scene, becoming a guilt-ridden hit-and-run driver. In the latter, a father goes out to buy ice cream for his family, intervenes in a street corner act of domestic violence and is murdered for his trouble. Both movies concern themselves primarily with the aftermath of these shocking crimes, Reservation Road far more...
...Then prompt no more the follies you decry, / As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die; / ‘Tis yours this night to bid the reign commence / Of rescu’d Nature, and reviving Sense; / To chase the charms of Sound, the pomp of Show, / For useful Mirth, and salutary Woe / Bid scenic Virtue form the rising age, / And Truth diffuse her radiance from the stage...
...your room bleary-eyed, and he or she will think nothing of it. What’s more, we assume that all our peers are constantly devoting themselves to the things we ourselves ought to be doing: studying for classes, finding jobs, calling grandmothers. This really ramps up the guilt factor. I recently discovered that, when he’s not hazing punches or drinking in section, Bennett C. Braddock III ’08 enjoys a truly unexpected pastime: women’s varsity sports. I was at last weekend’s women’s volleyball match...