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There's been enough bloodshed where this fence now stands. We don't need to have any more. To me the death penalty is vengeance, and vengeance doesn't really help anyone in the healing process. Of course, our first reaction is to strike back. But if we permit ourselves to think through our feelings, we might get to a different place. I was taught that even the souls of dastardly criminals should be saved. I think it is necessary, even for the soul of Timothy McVeigh. I think my daughter's position on this would be the same...
...seriously as the turf battles between free-speech and pro-China advocates intensify. A leading Hong Kong Democrat warned Wednesday that a planned free-speech protest in Victoria Park on the night of the handover could turn violent if China resorts to such ''dirty tricks'' as instead granting the permit for the space to the suddenly-interested pro-China Hong Kong Federation of Women. Hong Kong Democrats, says Chiang, see that they are about to be unceremoniously eliminated from Hong Kong politics. China is using the handover event to stage a swearing-in ceremony for the provisional legislature...
...Every so often I would love to give the A+ to the exceptional student," Davis says, referring to a grade that Harvard does not permit instructors to give. "But there's no way I can reward that gradewise...
...Peter J. Gomes, the Plummer professor of Christian morals, refuses to perform or permit same-sex blessing ceremonies within Memorial Church. Earlier this year, the council passed a resolution asking the University to reverse the position. Appelbaum argued the council has no business interfering with "laws of the house...
After a year of legal wrangling with local residents who opposed granting a special permit for a fast food license, Starbucks, the coffee giant, managed to replace Steve's Ice Cream on Church St. Housed in what was once Cambridge's first jail, it joins sister stores one located in The Garage, another on Broadway next to Broadway Market and one on Mass. Ave. and Linnaean St., near Radcliffe Quad...