Word: priore
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Almost a year later, the charges have been reduced to second-degree aggravated battery, still unheard of for a fist-fight where the victim walked out of the hospital hours later. The 16-year-old boys, all without prior criminal records, were tried as adults in front of an all-white judge and jury. Under normal circumstances, the charges and sentence seem unnecessarily harsh. Set against the background of events in Jena, they raise the specter of racism...
...state amateur tournaments.Harvey had “no expectations of winning” the title at the Virginia Women’s Amateur, though she had played well enough in the tournament in years past to advance to the US Women’s Amateur tournament. She used her prior experience in match play tournaments and a little advice from Harvard coach Kevin Rhoads to help her achieve success.This year, Coach Rhoads chose the book Golf is Not a Game of Perfect by sports psychologist Dr. Bob Rotella for his team’s summer reading assignment.Harvey took the advice...
...site where students can compare the cost of required class texts across a handful of Internet vendors as well as the putatively more pricy Coop. This year, however, presented a previously unencountered difficulty. Many course syllabi, typically posted on the Internet in the week or two prior to Shopping Period, did not appear on-line until the day before classes begun. Bereft of syllabi, Crimson Reading had to resort to extreme measures to acquire the lists of required texts for each course...
...National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Utah, whose Mormon population largely shuns drinking, is the state with the lowest rate of alcohol-related fatalities: just 24%. Hawaii has the highest rate: 52% of its fatal crashes involved high alcohol levels. To fight drunk driving, state courts may require that prior DUI offenders install devices that prevent impaired drivers from starting their cars...
...true that under regulations adopted at the beginning of this year, most restrictions on reporting in China by foreign journalists were lifted. Rather than apply for official interviews and trips outside Beijing through the Foreign Ministry, reporters can now interview anyone, anywhere, as long as they have prior consent. But that has been just about the single concrete advance the advent of the Olympics has brought to the cause of a free press in China, and it applies only to foreign journalists. For local reporters, conditions have actually worsened. An Amnesty International report last month described a new crackdown...