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...Despite strong individual performances that garnered points for both squads, the Harvard men’s and women’s track and field teams could not crawl out of the bottom half. Both teams finished this past weekend’s outdoor Heptagonal Championships in Princeton, N.J. in seventh place out of the eight Ivy League schools competing to end the spring season...
...field part of our program is a real strong component of the team,” Saretsky said. “It was great to see, especially our captain, seeing them end on such a high note...
Harvard’s heptathletes also battled intensely against the competition, as sophomore Nicole Sliva pulled out a strong second day to jump from fourth place to second in the seven-event competition. Freshman Mary Hirst grabbed two points by placing fifth, while sophomore Christine Reed took sixth...
...disgust at the event lead to adults crowding around the court, where they banged on the children’s van, thirsty for retribution. Similarly, the desire for information about the new crime of an ex-convict seems to be a product of natural but legally unreasonable anger. Comparably strong emotions affected the original trial, and the European Court of Human Rights later ruled that the high scrutiny and “incomprehensible and intimidating” adult court structure for a child of 11 meant that the trial was not a fair...
...distress that surrounds a crime committed by a supposedly innocent child can create pressure for an unusually harsh sentence. However, such emotion, triggered for example by video evidence of Venables sobbing inconsolably for hours on end, can also create sympathy for excessive lenience. Despite such strong and opposing beliefs founded upon Venables’s and Thompson’s young ages, the legal age for criminal responsibility in England is 10 years old, and psychiatrists ruled that both the children could distinguish between right and wrong. In spite of general cries for vengeance and dismay over the seemingly lenient...