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...Penalty Information Center. Unlike the rest of us, Earle still has to enforce the death penalty. He is often plagued by doubts when he must decide whether to seek death. "I agonize over it," he says. "There was a time when I thought the death penalty ought to have wider application, but my views have evolved." Today deciding whether to seek the death penalty is easily the hardest part...
...Those events suggested that Tien hadn't merely glimpsed some wider goalposts but had ripped off his jersey, with Beijing's encouragement no less. But last week, Tien told a slightly different story. He says he went to Beijing to warn of a "big crisis" if the Article 23 bill was pushed through: in other words, another huge public protest. Tien says Liao reminded him that the Article 23 legislation was required of Hong Kong but that the details were up to Legco?that was the whole point of the "one country, two systems" philosophy. On timing, according to Tien...
...BLOOD IS DRAWN Drinking its fill may take a mosquito a good five minutes. The fine, strawlike labrum (barely wider than a blood cell) draws slowly but also prevents the host from feeling the bite...
...Dark Arts professor. What's more, along with death, sex made its first appearance in Goblet of Fire (those veelas! that Cho Chang!), and Harry--well, let's just say again that he's not a kid any more. And as always, there are glorious glimpses of the wider wizarding world. When Harry visits Mr. Weasley's offices at the Ministry of Magic, he's treated to the greatest elevator ride since Willy Wonka, an adventure he shares with a fire-breathing chicken and a flock of bewitched purple paper airplanes, official Ministry memos en route to their recipients. "Level...
...person who speaks to thinking people both inside the academy and well beyond its walls,” Buell said, linking this switch-hitting to a Harvard tradition. “Harvard is a place where many faculty, not all but many, find themselves speaking to wider publics because of the centrality of the place. Menand already does that...