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...large swath of research literature, the Department of Justice concluded that "to best achieve reduction in recidivism, the overall number of juvenile offenders transferred to the criminal-justice system should be minimized." That came three years after the U.S. stopped executing minors, following a Supreme Court decision, Roper v. Simmons, that was largely based on new brain research showing that the full development of the frontal lobe, where rational judgments are made, does not occur until the early- to mid-20s. At the state level, Missouri is leading the country by phasing out its large juvenile-detention institutions in favor...
...together. The European alliance against Napoleon was all but dead seven years after they had danced the last waltz at the Congress of Vienna. The entente that followed the defeat of Wilhelmine Germany collapsed five years after the armistice. The Soviet-American alliance against Hitler was practically finished by V...
...descriptions of how silence can build tension in comedy was a very interesting aspect of the talk,” said William M. K. Stallings ’10. The “Conversations with Kirkland” Series was founded in 2002 by Peter V. Emerson, resident scholar of Kirkland house and former Kennedy School of Government student, and co-housemasters Tom C. Conley and Verena A. Conley. Since its inception, the series has hosted casual talks between students and a wide range of guest speakers, including several actors and famous politicians...
...organizer of the event. “Everybody loves finance, consulting, non-profits and academia, but we offer another option to students, and that option is entrepreneurship and industry,” said Altmaier. Yesterday’s winners included Robert W. Corty ’10 and Zachary V. Smith ‘09, who hope to create a one stop destination for college students to plan holiday trips with their project, GetOutOfCambridge. The pair snagged one of the three $15,000 McKinley Family Grants awarded last night, which, Corty said, would be put to use hiring programmers...
...taught to solve problems in as little as 3 hours, but this gives us more of a realization of the true complexities rather than giving us the unrealistic ambition that we can solve real problems in that time,” said Jason V. Bhardwaj, a student at the Business School. “The school errs on the side of giving us less time per problem to expose us to a variety of situations...