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Although Griffin did not qualify for NCAAs at 165 lbs., he performed beyond expectations, finishing fifth though only seeded eighth, and winning the final match of his career...
...current strike is part of a long history of labor strife at Yale, and comes as the eighth strike in the past 35 years. Hopefully the school can get it right this time. Yale workers need a living wage and good working conditions. If Yale is insensitive to appeals to its decency and morality, it should at least recognize the need to avoid future conflict...
While university officials denied that the strike—the eighth at Yale in the last 35 years and one of the largest ever at a university—will affect bargaining, the unions have managed to focus local and national attention on their cause...
...ruling upholding California's "three strikes" law, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor noted that sentences such as 25 years without parole for stealing three golf clubs don't necessarily violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment - and that if Californians think the law is too harsh, they should talk to their legislators...
Project leaders said they chose McBride’s book both because of its emphasis on diversity and education and because it is given as a graduation gift to all Cambridge students upon completion of the eighth grade...