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...painless rather than the three-drug combination. But the Court hastily dismissed such a proposal as only “a slightly or marginally safer alternative.” There are many other options out there, and so long as capital punishment is permitted by the Court, we ought to pursue and practice only the least painful process of execution. This Kentucky ruling has certainly dealt a blow to those advocates who hope to make the administration of the death penalty even slightly more humane. But we hope that in the future, such cases can be used as a starting...
...Axing transfer admissions has created a surfeit of sob stories, most of which ought to be neither trivialized nor ignored. But at the end of the day, the outrage from current Harvard students has been somewhat surprising. After all, it was out of attentiveness to undergraduates’ direct personal interests that the administration made the decision to banish transfers. Just three days prior to the move, rising seniors in Winthrop House had been casually informed that, thanks to a looming Malthusian crisis, the cushy senior suites they’d be expecting would be replaced by bunk beds...
...only up to a point. The effects triggered by chronically elevated levels of testosterone can eventually have the opposite effect. Animals observed in this same situation by scientists start to pick fights they ought to avoid, or to patrol a wider, more hazardous patch of territory. Perception of risk becomes blurred. For a trader on a roll in the midst of a bubble, for instance, that suggests "several rounds of winning means testosterone so high they start taking stupid risks," says John Coates, a former Wall Street trader turned senior research fellow at Cambridge, and lead author of the study...
...either case, the administration ought to be more forthcoming about the basis for their decision, which came well after the transfer application deadlines of other schools. In recent years, Harvard has accepted more transfer applicants than Yale or Princeton (who don’t allow transfer applicants at all) on the basis that students who transfer in tend to have higher grade point averages at Harvard than students who come in as freshmen. Moreover, transfer students add a diversity of background and experience to the student body. This certainly could be said of Max. A French kid who left...
...focused on the UC. “I fall into that category of people who don’t really feel represented by the UC,” she said. But Derenoncourt said she plans to continue participating in the review process. “I think students ought to have a chance to learn about self-governance before they go on to become leaders,” she said. Staff writer Chelsea L. Shover can be reached clshover@fas.harvard.edu...