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...amnesty law, even that won't stick. The government has released Colonel Guillermo Benavides, previously sentenced to 30 years for the 1989 slayings of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter. Amnesty will also prevent future trials for those accused of wartime excesses, including Defense Minister Rene Emilio Ponce, accused of planning the murders...
...mass executions and other atrocities. With its 800-page final report, the commission confirmed that 85% of the war crimes were committed by government-directed anticommunist forces, including the Salvadoran army and free-lance death squads, backed in some cases by wealthy, conservative citizens. The report accuses General Rene Emilio Ponce, the current Defense Minister, of plotting the 1989 murder of six Jesuit priests and two others. Leftist F.M.L.N. rebels, the commission concluded, also carried out assassinations and kidnappings, but more selectively. The commission recommended that 40 military officers be suspended immediately and that five F.M.L.N. leaders be barred from...
...like to see financial responsibility, impact on the Harvard community, and very well organized [groups]," said Rene Reyes '95, chair of the council's finance committee...
Since antiquity, philosophers have argued that higher mental abilities -- in short, thinking and language -- are the great divide separating humans from other species. The lesser creatures, Rene Descartes contended in 1637, are little more than automatons, sleepwalking through life without a mote of self- awareness. The French thinker found it inconceivable that an animal might have the ability to "use words or signs, putting them together as we do." Charles Darwin delivered an unsettling blow to this doctrine a century ago when he asserted that humans were linked by common ancestry to the rest of the animal kingdom. Darwinism raised...
Youth won out--Amherst beat Yale in the finals, 4-0. Harvard lost to Yale in the semis Friday night, 5-1. (That's an asterisked loss: Harvard's goalie was hurt and it played with a defender in goal, according to Harvard Captain Rene...