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...seem like studying to you but it’s murder for Harvard’s books.” Yet, it seems that students here think they are above the law. They eat Boca burgers and make O.J. Simpson jokes at dinner, then go slay Simon and Schuster for dessert. I sat down with Student Circulation Desk Assistant Stevie N. DeGroff ’06 to discuss Harvard’s untold genocide...
...Buried in that philosophy is something radical--the notion that the jury system, as it's currently constructed, can't be trusted to send only the guilty to death row. Most prosecutors wouldn't embrace that philosophy, which is why it may take an Earle, not a knight, to slay the demon of error...
...punishment flawlessly, ensuring that the innocent never spend a day on death row and the guilty are sent there only after trials free of bias and vengeance. Earle hopes that by raising every conceivable doubt about defendants before he decides to seek the death penalty for them, he can slay the "demon of error" invoked by Governor Ryan and achieve total certainty in the capital system...
...study in last week's Nature suggests--sorry, parents--that Grand Theft Auto III, left, Counter-Strike and other video games that require players to shoot bad guys and slay monsters may improve the kind of visual skills needed for, say, driving a car or even being a soldier. In the study, men 18 to 23 were tested for their ability to identify flashing cues, switch their attention rapidly and count objects approaching from many directions. The result: gamers performed up to 50% better than nonplayers, a finding that researchers suspect applies to younger kids as well. To rule...
...Texan called it "an image of Big Brother." But a North Carolina reader saw something quite different: "Rumsfeld's eyes in your portrait have the same look as those of Michelangelo's David. Some say the sculptor tried to portray David at the moment when he determined to slay the giant. Perhaps Rumsfeld is regarding Saddam or a false Goliath of terrorism...