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...seems wrong to risk taking an innocent life. But the larger question might be: Is the death penalty even an ineffective deterrent? In fact, experts on criminology tend to reject such notions as a flawed understanding of being tough on crime versus evidence-based reasoning about what works. Lawrence Sherman??Professor of Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania—explained in an article for The Daily Pennsylvanian: “There’s no evidence that the death penalty does anything to reduce homicides.” Linked to this flawed belief...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Still Cruel, Far Too Usual | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

...pressure and I knew I had to just hang on.” Harvard’s defense also played above par, blocking five Cornell shots. The squad’s starting defenders—junior co-captain Nicole Rhodes and sophomores Lizzy Nichols, Kelly Okuji, and Devon Sherman??continue to be difference-makers in the Crimson’s low-scoring games. “Our mentality is very different this year,” Merritt said. “We’ll go over the other team briefly before a game, but we focus more...

Author: By Vanda R. Gyuris, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Mann, Defense Lead Women's Soccer in Shutout | 10/8/2007 | See Source »

When it was originally produced in 1979, Sherman??s play initiated a long-overdue look into the experience of gays in the Holocaust, a topic that was hardly broached for decades after World...

Author: By Victoria B. Kabak, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Bent’ Tells a Wrenching Tale | 10/8/2007 | See Source »

Directed by Rachel E. Flynn ’09 and produced by Alison H. Rich ’09, “Bent” is playwright Martin Sherman??s best-known work, chronicling the story of three homosexual men who begin the play in Berlin. By the end of the first act, they are in Dachau...

Author: By Victoria B. Kabak, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Bent’ Tells a Wrenching Tale | 10/8/2007 | See Source »

...director says her play is about “The Gay Holocaust,” it’s tough to know exactly what the audience is in for. Rachel E. Flynn ‘09, a comparative study of religion concentrator from Quincy House, is directing Martin Sherman??s 1979 play, “BENT,” which will run from October 5-13 in the Loeb Experimental Theater. BENT follows the life of a gay couple during the Holocaust, focusing on everything from the hilarious foibles of romance to the chilling reality of death...

Author: By Scott A. Zuccarino, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: SPOTLIGHT: Rachel E. Flynn '09 | 10/5/2007 | See Source »

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