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...Crimson makes the fine point that "no action occurs in a vacuum." Vali, the editors argue, is to be excused and shown leniency because he was performing "nothing more than a typical college prank." How much more leniency are we to expect, then, when the offending actions are taken out of the direst economic necessity? When the actions stem from long-standing, verifiable physical addiction? Was Vali unaware of the law he was breaking? Was he not in control over what he was doing...
Legally, the Crimson has little influence over this case. However, while decisions regarding his prosecution lie with the English Language Center and ultimately with the district attorney, we implore those responsible for administering justice to be lenient. No action occurs in a vacuum, and Chandrasekaran's crime ought to be considered with the mitigating circumstance that his mischievous actions were nothing more than typical college pranks. Chandrasekaran should pay any damages incurred by the ELC because of the crime, and he should be released. He has certainly already learned his lesson, and undergraduates have been warned by his example. Nothing...
...wake will come a dangerous vacuum that a number of ambitious politicians and generals may jostle to fill, in a country whose political contests have never exactly been fought by Queensberry rules...
...SHARPTON With Jesse on the ropes, opportunity to be top Rev. Oratory abhors a vacuum...
Albert Einstein showed nearly a century ago that light always travels at one speed--670 million m.p.h.--but his Special Theory of Relativity had an often overlooked qualifier: this blistering pace applies only in a vacuum. When it passes through air, say, or glass or water, light goes a bit slower...