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...constitutional, which is appropriate when both the legality and morality of lethal injection remain in question. However, the case it will hear in January relates only to the mode of punishment, not its very existence. While the number of executions per year has dropped to 42 this year, its lowest level in more than a decade, we cannot let the moratorium distract us from the larger issues at stake. Although lethal injection is less gruesome than other methods of execution, it is no less brutal. Research indicates that the anesthetic can wear off, while another drug keeps the condemned paralyzed...
...event. The Run will soon be forgotten as the participants return to the daily grind of problem sets and midterms, and I doubt it changed that football manager’s stance on who he hands out cups of water to, but for part of that Saturday morning, the lowest rung of Harvard athletics had the spotlight all to itself, even if no one was there to watch...
...range of courses is much larger.” At the undergraduate level, the department hosts a relatively small number of concentrators. According to the FAS Handbook for Students, nine members of the Class of 2002 concentrated in statistics, the highest figure in the past five years. The lowest came with the Class of 2005, which had four. But the department’s introductory courses often attract high enrollment numbers. This fall, 510 undergraduates are taking Statistics 100, Statistics 104, or Statistics 110, three of the department’s introductory courses in quantitative methods and probability. When Friday?...
...attitude. They’re really taking their cues from the senior leadership about what the expectations are, what it takes to be successful.” The women finished fifth in the team standings, their best finish since 1999. Princeton won the event with 25 points, the third-lowest total in meet history, and Tigers sophomore Liz Costello was the top individual finisher in 17:14.4. Both the men’s and women’s squads are hopeful that the race will serve as a springboard for the most critical race of the season, NCAA Regionals...
...prospect of war with Iran is beginning to look real. The hardening of positions in both Tehran and Washington over the past week has brought relations to their lowest point since the Iran hostage crisis that began in 1979. Both sides insist that they seek no military conflict, but tensions on issues ranging from Iran's nuclear program to influence in Iraq and the Arab-Israeli peace process is turning their differences into all-out regional power struggle. Last week, Secretary of State Condeleezza Rice criticized Iran's "emboldened foreign policy" and "hegemonic aspirations," while asserting that the U.S. will...