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...surge in crime in the 1960s, lawmakers across the country and at all levels of government responded with a novel and dangerous policy known today as mass incarceration. Sociologist David Garland defines mass incarceration as the policies that produce a national imprisonment rate that exceeds the historical and comparative norm for similar societies. Since then, the U.S. incarceration rate has skyrocketed to 715 per 100,000, the highest in the world (Russia is a distant second...
...governator”, Minnesota elected Jesse “The Body” Ventura, a former professional wrestler, as its top executive. Now, more than a decade later, the Minnesota State Canvassing Board has declared that Democrat Al Franken, former comedian and Saturday Night Live writer, has defeated Republican Norm Coleman after a lengthy recount. We commend Minnesota for being prepared for close elections and for dutifully carrying out the recount in the face of a press frenzy. Hopefully other states will look to this process as an example of how to avoid the Florida debacle of the 2000 presidential...
Last year, more extensive media coverage made for a better turnout, though Cobalt said too much participation would have diminished the event, making participants seem less like anomalies and more like the norm...
...sophomore goaltender Christina Kessler.Vaillancourt was honored as the best player in the nation with the Patty Kazmaier Award, while Kessler set school records with a 1.06 goals against average and a .952 save percentage.Both players have remained solid this season, but the dominant performances that seemed to be the norm for the pair a year ago have appeared less frequently.That is, until this weekend.A Vaillancourt hat trick led Harvard (8-7-3, 8-4-2 ECAC) to a 5-3 victory over Brown (3-12-1, 2-7-0) in Providence on Friday while Kessler was rock solid between...
...Coleman, Norm •deletion of name of from Senate office and phone list...