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...Mexico An End to the Death Penalty Governor Bill Richardson, in a last-minute action he called "the most difficult decision in my political life," signed a bill making New Mexico the 15th state to ban capital punishment since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated it in 1976. (New Mexico has executed only one person since then.) Richardson said he was prompted to endorse the ban after visiting the state's death chamber and reviewing death-row exonerations. In 2008, 37 people were executed in the U.S.--the most in the world, after China, Iran and Saudi Arabia, according to Amnesty...
Freshman Valentin Staller also helped the Crimson by riding nine victories and 78 touches on his way to a 15th place finish in the sabre...
Listeners will get none of that in his latest effort. “Beware,” Oldham’s 15th studio album, moves into the major key, fleshing out the sparse chords of his previous recordings for a more expansive, upbeat sound. It kicks off to a country-western start with the jangly “Beware Your Only Friend,” featuring fiddles, percussion, and a full gospel choir. “I want to be your only friend,” Oldham croons, echoed by a bevy of perky female vocalists singing...
...conservation efforts have reached beyond this campus’ grounds. Along with pieces of art from Harvard’s own collection, the Straus Center has worked on preserving seventeen paintings from Piet Mondrian’s Transatlantic series, an altarpiece created by Bartholomäus Bruyn during the 15th century brought in from Germany, and the enormous wall murals that decorate the Boston Public Library by John Singer Sargeant. Lie claims that the conservation of the Sargeant murals has been one of Center’s most exciting tasks under his tenure. “It was a very...
Today Icarus is in her shade. In February the Huffington Post, the website she started in 2005 with Ken Lerer and viral-marketing guru Jonah Peretti, became the 15th most popular news site, just below the Washington Post's and above the BBC's. It garnered 8.9 million unique users that month, according to Nielsen - more than double what it attracted a year ago. It gets a million-plus comments from readers a month. A business newswire recently valued the site at more than $90 million. Only one independently held online-content company (Nick Denton's Gawker properties) is worth...