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...campus. Dormaid, founded by Michael E. Kopko ’07, is a cleaning service that allows students to avoid the perennial problem of dingy, smutty, questionably-habitable rooms. But as appealing as the thought of a perpetually tidy room may be, (independent of family visits), Dormaid could potentially mess up as many rooms as it cleans. By creating yet another differential between the haves and have-nots on campus, Dormaid threatens our student unity...
...government break its own laws without getting caught? The solution was to create chains of command tenuous enough so that if a pesky, over-intrepid journalist or human rights activist caught wind of the government’s dastardly deeds, it could disclaim knowledge or responsibility for the entire mess...
...Court to decide as it did. The logic of Atkins v. Virginia, a 2002 case which established that poor reasoning and impulse control precludes the execution of the retarded, comes into play here; although adolescents will one day be fully functional adults, until that day they are a riotous mess of chemicals and brain-size fluctuations. Recent research on the maturation of the brain, available only with modern technology, clearly shows that there is some basis in fact that the ultimate punishment should never be meted out for youthful mistakes, however egregious...
...sequence came with 4:33 left in the contest, when Corriero got tangled up with her defender and went airborne before crashing to ice. For several seconds, the scoreboard showed Corriero being assessed the lone penalty on the play, and the crowd of 1,611 moaned in disapproval. The mess was quickly sorted out, with Corriero getting two minutes for diving, and Dartmouth’s Alana BreMiller taking a foul for holding...
...country where monarchy is a longstanding tradition, it is ironic that this particular royal mess ignores another of Britain’s established realities. As titular head of the Anglican Church, the Queen is undoubtedly familiar with the story of Henry VIII and his precedent-setting marriage after a previous divorce. Thus, it seems slightly bizarre that she would choose to avoid her son’s second marriage, despite its strong sanction from English history...