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...scored a team-leading 14 goals, Meintel is eager to fulfill the high expectations set by last year’s stellar offensive performance. Meintel’s leadership comes at an especially crucial time, given that Harvard lost Ryan Maki—the team’s second-highest goalscorer last season—and Kevin Du to graduation. Meintel, who racked up seven power-play points on the season, also notched five assists for a total of 19 points, making him the fifth-highest scorer on the team. In an offensive rotation that includes six seniors and three...
...five months after the conviction, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, the state’s highest court, handed down a ruling allowing juries to consider a victim’s violent history in self-defense cases, even if the parties did not know each other beforehand...
...five months after his conviction, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC), the state’s highest court, handed down a ruling allowing juries to consider a victim’s violent history in self-defense cases, even if the parties did not know each other beforehand. Colono’s violent history was excluded from the original trial. Pring-Wilson’s lawyers appealed and in 2005 Judge Regina L. Quinlan overturned Pring-Wilson’s conviction and called for a new trial. The prosecution appealed Quinlan’s decision but the SJC upheld...
...proportions" in South Africa, it said, "and it should not be surprising that it manifested itself in Oprah's school... Oprah should not be condemned for allegations made against this matron. She should be praised for her decision to aggressively deal" with it. South Africa has some of the highest incidences of child and baby rape in the world. Many children are brutalized so often that they are desensitized to the abuse being a crime. A 2002 survey by the Community of Information, Empowerment and Transparency (CIET), an international group of epidemiologists and social scientists, found 60% of both boys...
...continues to make bucks off the names and feats of vets; it sells memorabilia, shows old film on ESPN Classic, and maintains the Hall of Fame.The retirees’ case against the league is one against pure greed. This year Gene Upshaw will make $6.7 million—the highest salary for a union official in American history. At the very least, the NFLPA should push management to allow disabled vets access to full pension at an early age. Disabled veterans should be able to provide for their families before the last Hail Mary. Perhaps, if the owners and union...