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...Robbins, who has dramatized the injustices of the American legal system on film, was confined to an on-stage prison of puns last night as members of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT) roasted their newest Man of the Year...
This spring, Harvard drama will truly run the gamut: Curran Singh ’07 is offering up a show based on the infamous American abuses of Iraqi prisoners in the Abu Ghraib prison west of Baghdad. Blending dance, dialogue, and something Singh calls “aerial dance,” the Abu Ghraib Show draws directly on actual accounts of Abu Ghraib prisoners and guards...
...twelve year-old boy killed his grandparents and set their house on fire, raises difficult questions about the role of antidepressants in a society that increasingly sees children as being overmedicated. Yesterday, the jury found Pittman guilty of murder and sentenced him to 30 years in prison. While the defense tried to argue that the drugs caused him to become “intoxicated” and act in a way he otherwise never would have, the jury rejected this notion and sided with the prosecution’s argument that the Zoloft defense was a smokescreen and that...
...terrorism, there will be a high demand for defense lawyers. But the government has sent a stern message to those lawyers willing to take up the challenge: defend an alleged terrorist, and you may find yourself accused of aiding terrorism, disbarred, and facing up to 30 years in prison...
AmyLincoln, the Harvard-educated star reporter in Susan Isaacs' new novel, Any Place I Hang My Hat (Scribner), has nowhere to go but up. Her father Chicky was in and out of prison, her mother Phyllis abandoned her as an infant, and Grandma Lil was known to shoplift dinner on her way home. Why did the author choose such a steep mountain for her heroine to climb? "I'm kind of interested in social class, which we're not supposed to have, but of course we do," says Isaacs. "We're such a mobile society--upwardly, downwardly and geographically...