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...year—at Emerson College. These speakers are undoubtedly worthy choices, but they do not have the cache of the University’s recent speakers, and it would be ungrateful of us not to appreciate our speakers on the basis of their cultural significance alone. Regardless of whether his speech inspires students to go into public service or is just interesting, the fact that Justice Souter is coming to speak at Commencement should make all seniors proud...
...inflicts trauma on its victims, even in non-violent situations. However, we live in a democracy where criminals do not forfeit their human rights; stolen goods should not be repaid with death, as the punishment does not fit the crime. Those who experience felony often feel threatened—whether during a burglary or a street robbery—but it’s unacceptable for citizens to immediately react with violence. Such mentality leads to a Wild West attitude, when the general public has more freedom to shoot and kill than the trained police...
...Murray do anything to discourage a practice seemingly as old as Hollywood itself - celebrity clients with substance-abuse problems, or with other real or imagined illnesses, finding doctors to give them the medicines and care they crave, even if it goes against proper medical practice? Or are the temptations - whether the generous pay or the ego gratification of being patronized by a famous person - simply too great to resist? (See Michael Jackson's death: How culpable are the doctors...
...food he produced in the qualifying contest, and the nanotech precision of his four-star kitchen - not to mention the months of training and coaching he'll receive - there's every reason to believe Kent will do better than the U.S.' best ever finish. The question, though, isn't whether we can win; the question is why we would even want to. (See Bocuse d'Or: Americans in a French Food Fight...
...warm things up. And a recent White House meeting about job growth featured tense exchanges between Obama and both Republican Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell and Republican House minority leader John Boehner. There has already been much ugly speculation about the upcoming White House-hosted health care summit: whether it is an actual attempt at bipartisanship or some sort of trap spiked with the telegenic eloquence of the still likable President meant to embarrass Republicans. On the current trajectory, no politician will enter that room feeling too rosy about the other side's motives...