Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Douglas pled guilty in Middlesex Superior Court on Sept. 24, 1998, to a charge of indecent assault and battery--a lesser charge than rape. A rape charge against Douglas was not pressed at that time, but could be at a later date...
...Faculty had approved this motion, Douglas could have returned to campus in five years, after petitioning the Ad Board and meeting any conditions it set. Withdrawal is considered a lesser punishment because the Ad Board traditionally is far more open to re-admitting students after their term of withdrawal...
Though the protest today may seem futile, it is important nonetheless for the administration to see there are few crimes more offensive to the campus community than rape. If and when future cases of rape come before the Faculty, a vote on expulsion--and no lesser punishment--should be on the agenda...
...would Ingres have liked this show, the first ever dedicated to his portraits? Impossible to guess. He might have objected to seeing what he considered the lesser part of his work isolated from the greater part, the paintings of history and myth. A modern viewer couldn't care less, and shouldn't. For with the passage of time, Ingres's portraits have become history paintings in their own right...
...white uniforms for blue ones. And then there are cases in which there is still time to make good on history. Perhaps this one. Mamie Till Mobley is ailing but alive. She has mourned her only child these 44 years. She could never get his murderers indicted on lesser charges, never got their apologies. They are now dead. She has demanded reparations from the state of Mississippi. It has never responded. It should...