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...from the Accessible Education Office (AEO), which coordinates assistance for disabled students. Personalized agreements will help ensure that a student’s specific needs will be addressed from the get go and kept on file so that students do not have to rehash old battles.For students to get proper accommodation, however, it is also vital that they be upfront about their needs. Many students are reluctant to disclose information about their condition, sometimes out of a healthy desire not to be defined by their disability, but sometimes also because they feel pressure to hide weakness. The AEO and Harvard...
...comparison, lethal injection sounds more scientific--almost therapeutic--but its history is as improvised as that supermarket sponge. In 1977 an Oklahoma lawmaker sketched the protocol on a notepad with the help of a medical examiner. More research has gone into the proper way to brush your teeth. But the idea caught on, and now, years later, more than half the states have adopted some version of the Oklahoma cocktail. Judges in courts across the country are scratching their head over the odd concoction, and the Supreme Court has effectively halted all executions to untangle a mess of belated questions...
...widely dispersed power--many states, cities and jurisdictions. Out of this diversity has emerged the staggering intricacy of death-penalty law, as thousands of judges and legislators from coast to coast struggle to breathe real-life meaning into such abstract issues as what constitutes effective counsel, what is the proper balance of authority between judge and jury, what makes a murder "especially heinous," what qualities and defects in a prisoner compel mercy...
...possible the court will ponder this haphazard procedure and say again, as it ruled in the Francis case: Too bad--accidents will happen. Or it might follow the lead of U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel, who ruled that the three-drug cocktail, administered by people without proper training and supervision, is cruel and unusual. Or something in between...
...verge of winning. That allegation has been backed by statements from the U.S., Britain and European Union observers alleging irregularities in the counting process. It was further strengthened Thursday when Kenya's attorney general called for an independent investigation into the poll. "It is necessary... that a proper tally of the valid certificates returned and confirmed should be undertaken immediately on a priority basis by an agreed and independent person or body," Attorney General Amos Wako said. The country, he added, was "quickly degenerating into a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions...