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...Radcliffe lesbian group which has been inactive for two yours is gearing up to most regularly, Jennifer Kapuscik '84, a GLSA member, said. Seventeen women turned out for the group's meeting last week, she added...
...seventeen years old, bound for college in another year, and I didn't believe in such things as curses... I would not have granted you the power of the past to reach out horrid dead hands toward the living...
...ensuing days press reports would play up the fact that a seventeen year-old Brazilian girl had slit her wrists in despair and that three elderly Brazilians liens had suffered heart attacks at the moment of Rossi's clincher. Soccer, it was duly noted, was a life-or-death matter in much of the world, especially in Latin American and Europe...
much good at first. Turner barreled down his wing, shot and was denied by Sylvestri. Clarkson winger Pat Haramis skated the other way, took a similar shot and scored, Seventeen seconds were gone...
Everyone seems afraid of imposing bona fide life sentences, however, and for reasons unconnected with expense. Seventeen states have laws providing for life without parole for those convicted of murdering a robbery victim. Abolitionists say such a sentence is excessive. Statistics show that fewer than 1% of freed murderers kill again after their release from prison, in part because of their advanced age. But if capital punishment is abandoned, it may make sense, politically and emotionally, to permit the public some vengeful satisfaction. Life without parole is unimaginably harsh. But it would be a way occasionally to formalize the revulsion...