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...country's troubled juvenile-justice system. For more than four years earlier this decade, two senior county juvenile-court judges in northeastern Pennsylvania took kickbacks of $2.6 million in exchange for packing thousands of kids off to privately owned detention centers. Many of the kids had committed minor offenses and didn't have the benefit of a lawyer. A 14-year-old from Wilkes-Barre, for instance, spent a year in a Glen Mills detention facility for the offense of stealing loose change from unlocked cars to buy a bag of chips; he was only set free after public-interest...
...only song that possesses that vital quality that “Grr…” as a whole sorely lacks: dynamism. By contrast, “Oklahoma” is sunny and even joyous, with chiming arpeggios helping to create a genuinely enjoyable, if minor, diversion. “Oklahoma” leads into “The Ancient Commonsense of Things,” where a pretty melody complements a theme, as stated in the title, that is the album’s one departure from the typical concerns of the genre. Prettiest...
After Kosberg the history of River Run becomes fuzzy. Kosberg said he passed down the ritual to a fellow student in HRTV. But in 2001 the tradition seemed to disappear for a year, to resurface in recent years with minor additions and metamorphose. However, in 1997 the Crimson published an article publishing Kosberg’s exploits, so in our small way, Flyby and The Crimson would like to think that we have contributed to the posterity of this most excellent tradition...
...been exempt from overt discrimination over the past few years. The Quad incident, the vandalizing of the Chabad House Menorah, and other incidents affecting the Latino and queer communities are only a few of too many examples of individuals being marginalized at Harvard. While each incident may represent a minor, isolated instance of bigotry, collectively these events reveal a deeper, systemic problem: Discrimination still laces our society and crosses lines of race, class, gender, sexuality, religion, and creed...
...There is a reason that this country has, on the whole, moved away from single-sex education. While teaching boys and girls separately may solve a few minor disciplinary issues, it does not have enough benefits to justify its enormous disadvantage: Members of the two sexes never learn to work together in an educational environment. Moreover, segregation can be unfair; catering to different needs among the sexes very well means that there may be discrepancies in what the students learn...