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Long before restorative justice gathered steam, Aba Gayle, 65, learned to forgive and to let go. Gayle says she knows all about "the big lie"--the promise that prosecutors make to relatives of murder victims that "everything will be O.K." once a murderer is caught, tried, convicted, sentenced to death and executed. In 1980 her daughter Catherine, 19, and a male friend were stabbed to death on a pear farm near Sacramento, Calif. Virtually disabled by what she called a kind of temporary insanity, Gayle attended the sentencing of Douglas Mickey as he received the death penalty for the killings...
...century has also turned science into the principal agent of technology. When James Watt built the first steam engines 200 years ago, he had intuition but not the laws of thermodynamics to guide him. We do not sufficiently applaud our century's discovery that science can be useful--or the degree to which science has come to depend on technology for its new instruments: powerful telescopes, atom smashers, computers...
After Herman Hollerith designs his punch-card tabulating machine for the 1890 U.S. Census and founds the company that will become IBM, the idea of computers slowly gathers steam...
Lauren points to the Persian rug covering the floor, but what he is really doing is indicating the building, the company, the whole brand. "People are asking, Where's Polo going? Are they out of steam? Are they yesterday's news? Let me tell you something: this company is a great company, not was a great company...
...currently maintaining relations with two convicted student rapists. My guess is that Eck and her cohorts will not be satisfied until student social options are limited to House book clubs, language tables, and similar, more scholarly endeavours that no realistically social person would ever pursue to let off some steam...