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American support for the death penalty has varied. There were 1,289 executions in the 1940s and 715 in the 1950s, and the number fell to 191 by 1976. In 1966 support for capital punishment reached an all-time low, 42%. And the Supreme Court began a series of decisions limiting the scope of the death penalty, effectively outlawing it in 1972. When the court reinstated the penalty in 1976, it mandated that certain procedures, such as separate deliberations for determining guilt and sentencing, were to be followed...
...peaceful coup. Assad proved a masterful strategist, managing his country's internal power struggles, regional conflicts and the Cold War and its aftermath to build Syria into a major Middle Eastern power. Having used Soviet patronage to build a military capability second only to Israel's, he smartly fell in line with the U.S.-led alliance against Iraq during the 1991 Gulf War. Rather than engage his enemies directly, Assad preferred to operate more subtly by giving space and succor to their enemies: For decades the principal expression of his conflict with Israel over the Golan Heights was the space...
...campaign fell short of its goal of 40 new endowed professorships in FAS. The high cost--$2.5 million per professor--discouraged many donors, along with a preference for more tangible, brick-and-mortar results...
Also, in 1998 Harvard settled a suit by an undergraduate who was injured in 1995 when a windowpane fell on her head in the Museum of Comparative Zoology building. Recently, the Harvard Business Review was sued in Federal District Court for using the term "breakthrough thinking," a term trademarked by another company, in one of their publications...
Several other cases were filed against Harvard in its capacity as the owner and landlord of Cambridge property. In one an individual fell on a sidewalk outside of a Harvard-owned building in 1996 during a winter storm...