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...There was never any green light [from me] to commit atrocities. Between me and my God, I have a clear conscience," de Klerk told the crowd...
...performances and athletic events. We've already had success with the student-faculty dining program that allows professors to swipe into the dining halls and eat with students. The program was created last spring with the support of Dean of Harvard College Harry R. Lewis '68. We should all commit to eating at least one meal with a professor over the course of this semester...
...switch? In the course of his extensive research studying crime, he changed his mind, a change of heart he laid out in a 1997 editorial for the conservative Wall Street Journal. His beef is that death row is a crapshoot because there is no logical relationship between those who commit capital crimes and those who end up facing death. Of the roughly 600,000 homicides committed in the U.S. since 1976, only 639 convicts have been executed. "It's become a lottery as to who gets killed," DiIulio told TIME last year. "Do the math...
ARRESTED. ANTON TITOV, 34, finance chief of Vladimir Gusinsky's Media-MOST empire, on suspicion of conspiracy to commit fraud; in Moscow. The arrest is the latest move in a Kremlin crackdown against Media-MOST, in particular its subsidiary ntv--the nation's sole independent TV network. Those actions have been criticized both domestically and overseas as an attack on press freedom. Gusinsky himself is in Spain fighting extradition on embezzlement charges, which he says are politically motivated...
...women to tell their doctors they are depressed. Men may be embarrassed, or they--and their doctors--may erroneously think that depression is an unavoidable part of growing old. The symptoms are often described as insomnia, fatigue or loss of appetite. As many as 70% of older people who commit suicide have visited their primary-care physician within the previous four weeks. Older people are less likely than younger adults to seek or respond to offers of help. They make few suicidal gestures, but a greater number succeed in carrying out their suicides. Despite what many people believe, young people...