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...enforce the laws." Most people in the U.S. (68% according to the Harris Survey) do indeed favor capital punishment; and the U.S. Supreme Court also seems impatient with what it regards as endless legalistic ploys to evade execution. Last week, by a 7-to-2 vote, the court emphatically tore down one more barrier to the execution of many of the 1,289 people currently on death rows in 34 states. The Justices ruled that state appeals courts have no constitutional obligation to review a death sentence to see whether it is "proportionate" to the punishment imposed on others convicted...
...football have been mixed into the exercises (Green Bay Packer Del Rodgers was a drill instructor). With the exception of three-time Olympian Cindy Nelson, a bronze-medal winner in 1976, they are extraordinarily fit. Nelson crashed a gate at Val d'Isere, France, last month and tore the ligaments in a knee. She returned to the U.S. immediately and has been working furiously to recover...
...sneaker circulated, the shadows crossed the remaining yards of the field, leaving only the Harvard cheering section in sunlight, and the clock ticked away the last seconds of the 100th Game. Exultant Harvards tore down both sets of goal posts (the playfulness soured when a Harvard freshman, Margaret Cimino, was seriously injured in the confusion). As they left the bowl, the old grads, practiced in their ancient animosity, jeered or muttered, according to school. Undergrads seemed to take victory or defeat casually, but seniors were beginning to practice their lines for the years that would follow graduation. Fred Anscombe, Yale...
Many Harvard soap opera fans tore themselves away from their usual afternoon viewing schedules to meet the creator of some of their favorite shows...
...foot banner showing a timeberwolf was made by juniors, according to Gurl and was unfurled just before the freshmen marched onto the field at halftime during the Brown game. The freshmen grabbed the banner and tore it as they passed it among them selves...