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TIME: Would your feelings about Louise be different if she had apologized after Matthew died...
Eleven days after a Cambridge, Mass., jury found British au pair Louise Woodward guilty of second-degree murder in the death of eight-month-old Matthew Eappen last February, Judge Hiller Zobel turned the verdict on its head. In a rare and controversial act of judicial veto, he reduced her conviction to involuntary manslaughter and deemed that the 279 days she had served in prison would suffice as a sentence. Woodward was free. The decision elated her supporters--among them the entire village of Elton, England, her hometown--and devastated Matthew's parents, Deborah and Sunil Eappen. On Friday, Deborah...
...Sunil [her husband]. We haven't been living at home for 2 1/2 weeks; we have been going from place to place, living out of a car, scrambling for clothes. It is hard to know what's important. I feel I'm the judge's victim. Louise took away Matthew, and the judge took away justice. What are we telling people in this case? That if you commit a crime and lie, you get away with it? It really belittles and diminishes the value of Matthew's life. [Is this] a society that views children as dispensable? Children of abuse...
...that she showed no remorse is very offensive. I really wonder whether she cares about anyone else but herself. You know, after she was found guilty, she said, "How can you do this to me? I'm only 19." Well, my response was, 'How could you do that to Matthew? He was only 8 1/2 months.' Now Louise is living in a presidential suite in that hotel. She is a convicted felon, and it has turned into the biggest opportunity in her life...
Harvard's offensive line, led by Matthew R. Birk '98, has been crushing all of its opponents. Even when the team lost to Bucknell, Colby B. Skelton '98 managed to break Harvard's receiving record. At the same time, the defensive unit, including Jeffrey G. Compas '98, Timothy M. Fleiszer '98, Christopher K. Schaefer '98 and Christopher D. Smith '98, has been valiantly holding down the fort. And while Captain Brendan L. Bibro '98 has not played since being injured at Holy Cross earlier in the season, he has by no means been down for the count; his leadership...