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...recognize that there are students here who have differences in terms of military policy,” Obama said at the Columbia forum. “But the notion that young people here at Columbia or anywhere, in any university, aren’t offered the choice, the option of participating in military service, I think is a mistake...
...this wideout carousel is junior Matt Luft. After two years under the wing and shadow of fellow Thousand Oaks High School graduate Corey Mazza ’07-’08, Luft has quietly developed into a star, and Harvard senior quarterback Chris Pizzotti’s favorite option.“I know everyone’s talked about depth, but the one guy who’s there every week, who’s been there, is Matt Luft,” Pizzotti said after Saturday’s 27-24 win over Lehigh.Luft was his usual...
...measure of how volatile investors reckon markets will be in the short term, the sharp sell-offs seen in recent months have sent the VIX to its eye-popping highs. The index is calculated from the price of options - a deal to buy or sell an asset at a fixed price and time - linked to the S&P 500. As the value of that index plummets - the leading benchmark of U.S. stocks has lost about a third of its value this year - investors are scrambling to pick up options in order to hedge against those losses. That, in turn, drives...
...many prior convictions have yet to be revisited. According a recent study in The Columbia Law Review, key factors in the convictions of innocent individuals were false testimony and faulty forensic science. In 61 cases, individuals had exhausted appeals, leaving Governors’ pardons as the only available option despite compelling DNA evidence of their innocence. Such facts show the clear fallibility of the criminal justice system and make the irreversible nature of the death penalty particularly unnerving. Given that our justice system is premised on the belief, “innocent until proven guilty?...
...from 2006 through 2008. Mahoney and Allen settled a lawsuit this year that gives Allen $60,000 and her attorneys $40,000. He didn't want "the public spectacle" of Allen going public during the congressman's first re-election campaign, so he chose the settlement as his best option. "I wanted to hide it," he said, and "make it go away," though he admitted to being "ashamed" of the affair and for putting himself in a "stupid situation," and felt "remorse" for embarrassing himself and his wife and daughter. Mahoney insists he's broken no laws, as the money...