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Time since the verdict was reduced to a mere $1.2 million by the judge in light of the fact that Smith’s fatal heart attack may have been caused in part by the fact that he was 54 years-old, overweight, a long-time smoker who ate a poor diet, got little exercise, had diabetes as well as high cholesterol, and considered his job highly stressful...
Providing aid to survivors of violent crime is a basic obligation of the state. Nonetheless, Romney’s budget put funding for rape crisis centers on the chopping-block—not for a mere reduction, but for complete annihilation. Now that the House’s leadership—under the inept decision-making of Speaker Thomas M. Finneran, D-Mattapan—has kept this horrific cut in the proposed budget, this grave duty falls to the Senate leadership and to the House’s membership...
...positive this season, causing random testing to go into place next season, that the penalties will be anything but harsh. In the future, under a random testing policy, a first offense would only require participation in a drug treatment program, and a second offense would only lead to a mere 15 day suspension. Furthermore, if players test positive, they are able to take a second test, one week later, and a negative result here will wipe out the earlier positive. Compare this to the National Football League (NFL), where one positive test for steroids leads to a four-game suspension...
...society and is haunted by the memory of an innocent's execution, is called into duty one last time. He is a killer, no doubt, but the consecrated rope he uses to hang his victims also has the power to cure sickness. Is he an agent of karma? A mere government functionary? Or a willful sinner whose well-paid job trades in the blood of the blameless? The film is vintage Adoor, a picture-perfect set piece that entertains eternal questions of human responsibility and freedom. (Shadow Kill "has the stamp of a master," according to film critic Chidananda Dasgupta...
Overall, though the production can be construed as overly flashy or a mere attempt at Shakespearean pulp, that flashiness is what brings Richard III a fresh life on the Mainstage. And though it doesn’t take an adaptation set in an Aztec tribe to affirm the universality of Shakespeare’s drama, it does make for a wonderful spectacle...