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...whether information about Venables’s re-arrest is revealed, it’s uncertain whether a fair trial is possible. Past criminal activity is often pertinent to court cases, and, if the jury learns of his true identity, it seems unlikely that an impartial trial will prevail. According to legal justice, Venables’s previous murder should be taken into account upon new offences but not his shocking age at the time it was committed. The realistic truth is that child criminals shake the bedrocks of society, and typical legal lines don’t necessarily adhere...
...leaving his communal responsibilities and attending MIT—a struggle which informs Cass’s own thinking on religion’s roots and allure. While in the past Cass waits to discover what Azarya will decide, in the present readers wonder whether Cass will prevail in his upcoming religion-and-reason debate at Harvard against a neoconservative Nobel Laureate...
...moving from the rural areas into the cities so they're exposed to new ideas. Many Iranians realize what universal human rights are, and they want rights that they see other people in other countries having. Right now they face a lot of obstacles, but I think they will prevail. It's not clear when, but eventually they will...
...route to Washington to discuss trade issues, and pointed with hope to a May session of the biannual Strategic and Economic Dialogue, at which high-ranking delegations from both sides will sit down in Washington. "You got a sense," says an American participant, "that he wants calmer heads to prevail...
Rooms: Winthrop’s housing is not luxurious, but it is usually tolerable. Thin fire doors prevail in many bedrooms—which means you can hear everything that is going on in the adjacent room, and the person in that room can hear everything you’re telling your parents on the phone. Most sophomores usually sleep in bunk beds for the full year (unless they are in DeWolfe), though juniors enjoy somewhat better housing. Seniors have no guarantee of enjoying a single at all, unlike seniors in many other Houses at Harvard...