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Individual sovereignty is perhaps the most central principle underlying the founding of our nation. Yet a recent report by the Pew Center on the States shows that over 1 in 100 American adults have lost their freedom and are incarcerated, making the United States the world leader in per capita imprisonment. Defenders of this startling practice maintain that if one in 100 Americans are imprisoned, it is because one in 100 Americans has committed a criminal act that merits incarceration. It seems implausible that this enormous economic and social burden is justified. Although some argue that high rates of incarceration...
...Harvard men’s basketball team (8-20, 3-9 Ivy) in front of a raucous crowd of 4,473 at Newman Arena on Saturday night, the Big Red (20-5, 12-0 Ivy) clinched the outright Ivy League title and became the first team in the nation to officially be headed to the NCAA Tournament. With the score tied 11-11 in the first half, Cornell outscored Harvard 34-9 over the final 14:24 to take a 25-point lead, 45-20, into the locker room at the half, all but finishing the Crimson before it even...
...Daily Princetonian, likewise, joined the choir, linking Obama’s “relative lack of experience” and “naivete in foreign affairs” with his “potential for healing the divisions of the nation and moving us forward to a better day.” The junior Senator “points us toward what is possible to achieve if we can unite in common cause.” His very words stir us to action, to forget the sobering reality of recent experience, to believe that anything, no matter...
...Which brings us to March 4. Vermont has the nation's second-whitest and second-oldest electorate, the kind of demographics that tend to favor Hillary Clinton in Democratic primaries. The popular former governor Madeleine Kunin is leading the Clinton campaign in Vermont, and Chelsea Clinton came to campaign on Friday. But Barack Obama is dominating the polls. "This is a state with a strong feminist tradition, but Obama's eating Hillary's lunch," says University of Vermont political science professor Garrison Nelson. Obama created quite a stir when he visited the campus last year. "I've been here...
...Critics might still complain that Plan Colombia - which has made the South American nation the third-largest recipient of U.S. military aid outside Iraq - is ignoring its original purpose. But the Bush Administration would argue that by beheading the FARC, Plan Colombia is actually fulfilling its anti-drug mandate - because at least half of the between $500 million and $1 billion the FARC is believed to earn each year is derived from protecting Colombian cocaine trafficking. The other half is made via ransom kidnapping - the FARC currently holds more than 700 hostages in its jungle redoubts, including three Americans - which...