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...reform Massachusetts’s flawed justice system, Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 recently initiated a reevaluation of the state’s mandatory minimum sentencing laws. These statutes, which require a minimum sentence for crimes that fit certain criteria, eliminate judicial discretion, can result in grievous injustices in sentencing, and shift the prison system to focus on punishment rather than rehabilitation. That’s not to say that mandatory minimum sentences are all bad—they have many benefits—but the rules as written are overly draconian and in need of reform...
...heed this warning: The Children of Húrin is a darker, bitterer tale than we're used to seeing from Tolkien. Its hero is proud and imperfect and willful - more Boromir than Frodo - and his story is full of accidents and disasters, poisoned barbs and ruinous betrayals and grievous misunderstandings. Which makes sense: after all, if the good guys had beaten the forces of darkness in the First Age, they wouldn't have been stuck with Sauron in the Third...
...University announced its divestment from PetroChina in April 2005. Nearly a year later, Harvard issued another statement, announcing the decision to divest from Sinopec—also know as the China Petroleum & Chemical Corp.—given “deep concerns about the grievous crisis that persists in the Darfur region of Sudan...
...Iraq invasion and its chaotic aftermath have damaged the U.S. for the foreseeable future. The basic premise for going to war was wrong, and Bush's and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's team made grievous mistakes that will forever define Bush's presidency. Will a troop surge help? No, it will continue to fill the President's last years in office with dead soldiers and ever increasing anger and threats. Fred Adkins London...
...coffin into Washington National Cathedral, you could hear the august music of Hail to the Chief. Inside the church, George W. Bush and three of his predecessors were gathered. But for the moment, there was only one chief who mattered, the man who once helped the nation weather a grievous shock to its system. In his eulogy, George H.W. Bush said it best: "Gerald Ford's decency was the ideal remedy for the deception of Watergate...