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...executions by firing squad (such as the one last month in Utah), does one of the guns contain blanks, not bullets? No one shooter definitively knows if he fired the fatal bullet. If the job of an executioner were morally justified beyond doubt, there would be no need to lift off any individual's shoulders the responsibility for the execution...
...perhaps the only true time this season, it was the senior line that not only scored for the Crimson but also led the way. The seniors sparked the team to lift its collective level to its full potential. Yes, Massachusetts, there is a potent Harvard hockey team, and it has emerged at the perfect time...
...October to hammer out new guidelines for environmentally sound tuna fishing. Their declaration permits encirclement so long as onboard observers certify that no dolphin drowned during the netting operation, and its provisions became the basis for a bill introduced by Alaska Senator Ted Stevens that would, among other things, lift the U.S. embargo. California Senator Barbara Boxer, a Democrat, has introduced a competing bill that would also lift the sanctions on the Latin nations but maintain them on individual vessels that catch tuna by encirclement of dolphins...
...modernism. In fact, none of the more exalted claims made for abstract art over the past century have worn well. In the first flush of optimism after the 1917 Revolution, artists like Vladimir Tatlin hoped that abstraction, if made of the common materials used by workers, could lift dialectical materialism to a new plane and so become the basis of a popular art. These dreams ended in indifference and, for some, the Gulag...
...Weisberg-Barry group--mindless motion can land you on a Greyhound to Newark--and I ended up getting the last seat on a prop plane to Dulles Airport. Bay Buchanan was on the flight, a picture of peacefulness with eyes closed on lift-off, knowing that below her Bob Dole and Lamar Alexander were grounded. Pat, who took off the night before, was already in South Carolina fulminating about Beltway betrayals...