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...differences in the games were Creighton's accuracy and perhaps a little luck--the Jays hit the post four times and missed an empty net on a break away late in the B.U. game...
Simply put, the lawyers for Pinochet's victims got indictments in Spain, and not Chile, because the general was still a powerful man up to the day of his arrest. Before resigning his dictatorial post in 1990, Pinochet decreed that he and his subordinates would be immune from prosecution for their crimes, even after he stepped down. He then used his authority while Chile's constitution was being written to ensure that this decree could never be repealed without his consent. Since 1990, Chilean courts have consistently been forced to uphold this immunity decree; cases against Pinochet in Chilean courts...
...positive consequences. For these people, long overdue justice is starting to materialize, lending the idea of democracy a fuller meaning. Democracy has not only been made fuller for the victims and their families, but Pinochet's arrest has made the democratic transition more secure. According to a recent Washington Post article, the psychological effects of Pinochet's arrest in Chile have been profound. Political observers there suggest that they have led to reduced military influence, and renewed interest in a South African-style truth commission...
...College's concern for preserving House community is an admirable and important one. But capping blocking group size does little more than provide a superficial solution, forgoing a more serious discussion of House community in the post-randomization...
Until now, that was RUS' job, which means the 31-year-old union now faces an existential crisis about its role in a post-Radcliffe world...