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...today’s society, the Second Amendment is outdated. Constitutional debates over its interpretation stand in the way of the implementation of pressing public policy. Instead of wasting time attempting to fix this anachronism, we should repeal this amendment and focus our efforts on legislation that will actually protect the “security of a free state”—a charge explicit in the Second Amendment...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Pulling the Trigger | 11/30/2007 | See Source »

...young female athletes protect themselves? Many sports-medicine pros recommend that girls work with coaches to strengthen their neck muscles. Another solution, especially for soccer players, is to wear protective headgear. Since its inception in 2002, a San Diego-based company, Full 90, has sold some 200,000 soft, padded headbands to soccer players. A recent study in the British Journal of Sports Medicine found that the band reduced concussion risk among a group of Canadian adolescent soccer players. But some experts worry that the bands may spur more reckless on-field behavior. "I fear that kids will put these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Head Games | 11/29/2007 | See Source »

DEFINITION cass-ul doc-trin n. Laws, adopted in 20 states over the past two years, named after the idea that a man's home is his castle. They allow citizens to use deadly force to protect their homes, cars and places of business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Briefing | 11/29/2007 | See Source »

...They were interpreted to violate rules against having political messages in a polling place. The reaction has been vociferous. Fox News branded Cambridge’s decision as “unpatriotic” and “anti-American.” The decision, however, was made to protect the integrity of the election, and it was the right one. The problem with the boxes has nothing to do with support or lack thereof for the troops, as it has been made out to be. The Boy Scouts had the best of intentions, and the donation boxes would...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Support the Integrity of Elections | 11/29/2007 | See Source »

...unity ,” i.e. American-isms. In 2002, Japan appointed a “Council on Japanese Language” to advise the government and media as to what foreign terms should be admitted into the language. The members of such institutions as these seek to protect their languages against “dilution” and eventual extinction; no one wants his language to be the next one on the 3,250-language long (according to The New York Times) Endangered Languages list...

Author: By Justine R. Lescroart | Title: Separation of Tongue and State | 11/28/2007 | See Source »

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