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...presidency. At the event on Friday, Faust praised Walker’s work for reasserting the importance of race in society’s cycle of violence. She said that it has become fashionable in many circles to marginalize the role of slavery and race in the violent culture of the Civil War. “Kara Walker brings race literally and figuratively into the foreground,” Faust said, praising Walker’s work for reinforcing the prominence of the issue in American national heritage. “We still, I believe, live in a world...
...five months after his conviction, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC), the state’s highest court, handed down a ruling allowing juries to consider a victim’s violent history in self-defense cases, even if the parties did not know each other beforehand. Colono’s violent history was excluded from the original trial. Pring-Wilson’s lawyers appealed and in 2005 Judge Regina L. Quinlan overturned Pring-Wilson’s conviction and called for a new trial. The prosecution appealed Quinlan’s decision but the SJC upheld...
...Nonetheless, Rivers said he was pleased with Friday's meeting, and described Patrick's promises as a good first step toward a better policy for fighting violent crime...
...betrayal (I promise it’s nothing like the typical Spanish telenovela), “Bodas de Sangre” is a haunting story about a wife-to-be who leaves her fiancée at the altar and escapes with her ex-lover. A bitter and violent rivalry ensues between the two families. Lorca’s obsessions with murder, death, and the role of women in society are central themes in the play. The Agassiz production began weakly with a confusing blend of discordant singing, incomprehensible dialogue, and insecure acting. By the second half, however, the actors...
...harm than any other. And yet fewer than 3 percent of applicable veterans—men plagued by brain trauma, dementia, and paralysis—succeed in obtaining disability benefits. But surely the retirees can pay medical expenses with the money they made as players right? Unfortunately, no. The violent nature of football often renders athletes incapable of providing for their families. At career’s end their bodies are broken and multiple concussions have numbed their brains to the point where they cannot remember the hits that placed them in such miserable condition. Hospital and prescription bills suck...