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...divided into classes based on experience and skill. “Our goal is to be competitive,” says Antonio C. Baclig ’09, a Leverett IM rower. “Our first [goal] was to just get out on the water and learn to row the boats. Now that that’s happening, we’re trying to get faster and faster.” While Leverett is speeding up, Eliot is suiting up. “We will eventually have our own jerseys,” Pertile says. Harvard boasts some...
...Supreme Court ruled in Coker vs. Georgia that the death penalty in rape cases was cruel and unusual punishment. Nevertheless, several states have retained old laws providing the death penalty for rape of minors - including Florida, Montana and Louisiana. Only one state, Louisiana, currently has someone on death row charged with raping a child: Patrick O. Kennedy, who faces the death penalty after being convicted in 2003 of raping an eight-year-old. His case is being appealed and could make its way to the Supreme Court, according to Richard Dieter, head of the Death Penalty Information Center...
...society of bitter caricature, evil actions are only perpetrated by evil people—Saddam Hussein, death row murderers, and George W. Bush, to name a few common targets. Pointing fingers seems like the easiest course of action whenever a problem arises. “I could never do what they do,” we tell ourselves. But as famed psychologist Philip Zimbardo reminds us, we are all capable of distasteful, even evil, actions, given the right situation.As anyone who has taken an introductory psychology course knows, Zimbardo was the creator and lead experimenter in the infamous Stanford Prison...
What do you get when you put tough guys played by former World Wrestling Entertainment champion “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, Vinnie Jones of “Snatch,” and eight other death row criminals on a deserted island with cameras watching their every move? “The Condemned,” an action-packed adrenaline rush of a movie with enough bombs and gore to satiate the audience’s needs—assuming the audience is your average American male youth, thirsty for the return of Stone Cold and epic...
This isn’t to say that I gleaned anything truly monumental from my trip back to Boston. Instead, the flight reasserted my understanding of just how lucky I am. I mean, of course I would have preferred the window seat in an exit row, but that day on the airplane proved to me that my Harvard skepticism sometimes controls my life. Every once and a while things suck, and the prospect of sitting in the middle seat between a dad and two babies certainly did suck. But things could have been a lot worse—I mean...