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...written letters to governors begging for an execution date. These "volunteers" constitute 11% of executions nationwide, and will continue to dominate both the headlines and the execution schedules (8 of the last 16 executions in Florida have been volunteers) long after this ruling. Volunteers are a byproduct of the tortuous slowness of the process, and the court's narrow finding ultimately will do little to speed up the works...
...slow, tortuous confrontation of racism has been called America’s great historic struggle. Even the institution of race-based hiring decisions—with their good intentions paving the way to hell as ever—forebodes a future still far removed from that nebulous multicultural promise of “color-blindness...
...would he want something else?” In today’s world, this statement would seem insane, but in the universe of Kertész’s novel, it is just a matter of perspective.Only Kertész can take us through his characters’ tortuous thought-paths in such a manner: his characters grate against our hearts and reason, and yet, as much as we may wish to do so, we are unable to dismiss them as insane. Repeatedly denigrating himself as “the new boy” and just...
This weekend, most of the campus observed the biennial tradition of journeying down to Yale for The Game. Bedecked in Crimson regalia and perhaps even tipsy from preemptive victory celebrations, students packed into shuttles for the tortuous trip down the Turnpike and Interstate 91 to New Haven, eagerly anticipating the pomp and circumstance that is our proudest piece of Harvard mythology...
...Though a UBS spokesman tried to justify the company’s decision, telling news agency Swissinfo that “UBS does not do business with companies in Sudan or those that generate substantial revenues in Sudan,” only a tortuous reading of business relationships bears this claim out. While technically separate entities, PetroChina is a public subsidiary of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), which owns 87 percent of PetroChina and controls its corporate governance policies. Indeed, the report that mandated Harvard’s divestment from PetroChina in April 2005—released by the Harvard...