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...Justice Anthony Kennedy, for one thing. While Kennedy voted with Scalia in 1989, he wrote a very different majority opinion this time around. Why did Kennedy change his mind? Legal tradition invites him to do so. Since 1958 the court has applied a flexible standard to interpreting the Eighth Amendment's ban on "cruel and unusual punishments." What we mean by the phrase, wrote then Chief Justice Earl Warren in Trop v. Dulles, depends on "the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society...
Faced with the prospect of losing an eighth Ivy League contest for the first time in school history, Princeton (15-12, 6-7 Ivy) played its best game of the year in routing the Crimson (12-15, 7-7) 66-44 at Jadwin Gym. Four Tigers scored in double figures, as the team collectively caught fire to hand Harvard its 16th straight loss in Princeton’s home...
...stellar all-around performance in sprint and distance relays, as well as individual events, gave Harvard its eighth EISL crown in a decade, a solid 1460.0-1363.5 victory over second-place Princeton. Columbia rounded out the top three with 1,040.5 points, but the weekend belonged to the longstanding and fierce Crimson-Tigers rivalry...
...men’s lone point came from an eighth-place finish in the triple jump, which has been a successful event for the team all season long...
...meeting took place on the grounds of a school called the Bar Sauri Primary School, where headmistress Anne Marcelline Omolo shepherds hundreds of schoolchildren through primary education and the travails of daily life. Despite disease, orphanhood and hunger, all 33 of last year's eighth-grade class passed the Kenyan national secondary-school exams. On a Sunday last July, we saw why. On their "day off" from school, this year's class of eighth-graders sat at their desks from 6:30 a.m. until 6 p.m. preparing months in advance for this year's national examinations in November. Unfortunately, many...