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...overly draconian and in need of reform. Mandatory minimum sentences eliminate a judge’s ability to fit the punishment to the crime. This institutionalizes ignoring many nuances and mitigating circumstances that may reduce the punishment for crimes. Judges have frequently criticized these laws, which they say impair their ability to do their jobs. Furthermore, since the law cannot anticipate every possible situation, in some infamous situations mandatory sentencing requirements can lead to punishments that are wildly disproportionate from the offense. The example most familiar to Harvard students is a Massachusetts law that adds at least two years...
...inquest, which has been postponed several times for a series of police investigations in France and Britain, is due to start in May. "I am encouraged by today's judgment and now hope that justice can be done without further attempts to impair the process," the Egypt-born Al Fayed said in his statement. "All I have ever asked for is fair play. When I grew up, fair play was said to be the unofficial religion of the British Empire. It may have been then, but I have seen precious little of it since...
...illumination casts some shadows? Even in the nineteenth century, when sheet music was the closest thing to “Shuffle Play,” some recognized the dangers of information overload: Ralph W. Emerson, Class of 1821, noted of the overly-busy man: “His notebooks impair his memory; his libraries overload his wit… A Greenwich nautical almanac he has… but does not know a star in the sky.” Perhaps the advent of the iPhone is a moment for us all to pause and reflect upon the gadgets that rule...
...harder we push publicly, the more backlash there will be,” says a senior female professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences who asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the search process. “We don’t want to impair the chances of the really excellent women who are in the pool...
...fashioned, it's also profoundly destabilizing. In a forthcoming paper in Psychological Bulletin, John Pachankis of Stony Brook University cites studies showing that concealing a nonheterosexual orientation is associated with more emotional distress and depression than disclosing the truth. There's even evidence that cloaking your identity can impair your physical health. Which makes sense: it's surely stressful to allow others to define you all your life. "Being gay and closeted doesn't guarantee that you'll do things you shouldn't do, but it increases the likelihood that you might," Representative Barney Frank told National Journal last week...