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Officially, Reese is three inches shorter and seven pounds lighter than Welch—on the ice, though, this disparity appears greater, and it create the most glaring difference between the pair’s game styles...
Moreover, the benefits to the larger Harvard community are notable. Roommates who choose not to employ the service will likely still benefit from the healthier, cleaner space provided by a fellow roommate’s purchase. Dorm Crew workers will face a lighter load when conducting their seasonal full cleans of rooms that, in the past, have often not been cleaned throughout the year. Not to mention, the regular maintenance of the dorms that DormAid provides ensures their quality for generations of occupants to come...
...either going to finish Jared Diamond’s book Guns, Germs, and Steel…or re-read Ursula K. Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea. I’m going on a canoe trip with my dad, so I’ll bring the lighter...
...hundreds of thousands of other crimes - including murder, torture and looting. So the government opted to expedite the process by firing up the gacaca network. In so doing, they have selected a system that is as much about reconciliation as it is about punishment. If suspects confess, they receive lighter sentences and the tribunals use the information to prepare cases against alleged accomplices. Testimony is also used to educate Rwandans about the genocide; many people still don't have a clear idea of what happened, even in their own villages. "We want to reach reconciliation through justice," Mukantaganzwa says...
...that will have a reconciliatory effect," says Jean-Charles Paras, head of the Rwandan mission for Penal Reform International. "Quite the contrary, actually." Another flaw, say critics, is the reliance on confessions. In many cases, the perpetrators are the only living witnesses to their crimes. The promise of a lighter sentence could be an incentive to implicate others, sometimes falsely. And many of the accused admit only to the bare minimum, and incriminate only accomplices who are dead or have fled the country. "I've never heard anybody confessing to more than one murder," says Gabriel Gabiro, a reporter...