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PBHA has approximately 1,800 volunteers and serves 10,000 people. The ranks of Harvard volunteers swell when groups outside the scope of PBHA, like Project HEALTH and HAND, are counted. Harvard gets a lot of mileage out of its volunteer ambassadors in terms of warm and fuzzy public relations. It’s sometimes unclear how much Harvard gives back to students volunteering their time. What is clear to volunteers is what they get back themselves. Public service affects course choices and vocational choices after graduation. It can mean frantic late night phone calls from teenage mentees and finding...
...death row, it would be ridiculous to believe that all innocents are spared. Wrongful death is so deeply embedded in capital punishment that its eradication is beyond the abilities of any Governor’s Council—no matter how talented its members. Another problem beyond the scope of the Governor’s Council is the racial bias that afflicts the judicial process in death penalty cases. Studies have consistently shown that black defendants are much more likely to be sentenced to death than white defendants in comparable cases...
...years, the presence of the Soviet threat—perceived a greater evil—muted disdain for America. But once this danger disappeared, old antipathies reemerged with new strength in a Europe that was about to embark on an unprecedented state-building process of a scale and scope unmatched in human history...
Romney added that the council is not responsible for determining whether Massachusetts should reinstate the death penalty, but only for drafting legislation so that the death penalty could be applied in a very narrow scope of situations, namely “terrorist attacks and mass murder, assassination of police officers, judges and prison guards and very heinous crimes...
Barnett argued in his first point that the scope of Congressional power was strictly limited in Article I of the Constitution...