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...system has diminished students' inclination to use discretion when letting people in the houses. Most students, when swiping people in, do not think about whether the person is authorized to enter. Alternatively, we may feel obligated to let anyone in to our house because we do not want to offend others by questioning them and asking for IDs. If the campus had universal access, students would not be put in such situations because everyone who was authorized to enter the houses would be able to do so. Students would be better able to recognize those who are not authorized...
Although Toomey said he does not see the death penalty as a "cure-all," he said he views it as the best available method for dealing with repeat offenders. Rather than allowing sexual predators and violent criminals to return to their home communities and offend again, Toomey said, the legislature should take responsibility...
...great thing about A Life Less Ordinary is its reckless lack of cultural calculation. In an age ruled by the demographic imperative, it is bound to confuse, if not actually offend, its natural constituencies--nostalgic oldsters, transgressive youngsters--who are antithetical in the first place. Nor in its weirdness does it offer anything but befuddlement for the general movie audience out for a good, conventionally generic time...
Flag-burning, school uniforms and V-chips seemed trivial to New Yorkers in the face of the big beefy issues of municipal bankruptcy, urban decay, and criminal danger lurking around every corner. Where campaigns beyond the Hudson strive for a vanilla homogeneity that does not offend or alienate any potential voters, New York politicos have never been afraid to muddy themselves in the racial, ethnic, and social divides within the electorate...
...pound Collins is the only one of the 115 registered sex offenders living or working in Cambridge identified by the board as a "Level Three," namely a "high risk to re-offend," according to Dillon...