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...arms shall not be infringed," said Justice Antonin Scalia. In a spirited back-and-forth with the district's lawyer, former solicitor general Walter Dellinger, Chief Justice John Roberts scoffed at the D.C. ban's sweeping restrictions. "What is reasonable about a total ban on possession?" he asked. Justice Samuel Alito joined his colleagues, pointing out that the ban's provision - that legal rifles or shotguns be kept unloaded, with the trigger locked - neutralized its self-defense purposes. If an intruder materialized, he asked, could the weapon be readied in time? Both he and Justice Clarence Thomas appear certain...
...misquote Samuel Johnson, Hillary Clinton attempting to make jokes on television is like a dog trying to walk on its hind legs: really awkward for everyone involved. Since everything Hillary does feels like the result of at least eight focus groups, there must be some reason she has decided to subject the American people to this. Perhaps Huckabee’s exodus from the ring has left the Late-Night Comedy Demographic rudderless and open to suggestion. Yet watching Hillary’s efforts to wangle a laugh out of the American people serves as a reminder of the closest...
...hard to keep a community still scarred by recent medical history from doing whatever it can to protect itself. Samuel Ho, a professor of psychology at Hong Kong University, says that during the SARS epidemic, Hong Kong residents were exceedingly concerned about infecting their families and loved ones with the virus. "People were worried about whether they would get the flu," says Ho, "But they worried more about their relations. ... How can I protect my wife? My kids?" He says that to help alleviate the kind of mass insecurity that recurs in Hong Kong during bad flu seasons like this...
Juliet S. Samuel ’09, a former Crimson associate editorial chair is a social studies concentrator in Eliot House. Her column appears on alternate Wednesdays...
...Indoor Athletic Building, the MAC’s 35,000 square feet serve as the primary exercise and recreation area for the University’s non-athlete undergraduates as well as the home for Harvard’s fencing, volleyball, and wrestling teams. —Staff writer Samuel P. Jacobs can be reached at jacobs@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writers Clifford M. Marks and Nathan C. Strauss contributed to the reporting of this story...