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In light of the importance of the annual election for members of Harvard’s Board of Overseers and heightened interest stemming from last year’s vigorously contested results and the possibility of a similar contest this year
Harvard Magazine is providing enhanced coverage. We asked each candidate presented by the HAA nominating committee and each member of the Harvard Forward slate seeking a place on the ballot by petition to answer these questions:
• What are the most important challenges facing the University and what are its most significant opportunities?
• What is the Board of Overseers’ role in Harvard’s response to those challenges and in its efforts to realize those opportunities?
Letters: Trump s rush to execute; guns at Statehouse; cops doing their jobs
Letters to the editor
Trump s late rush to kill is abhorrent
The Trump Administration has managed to squeeze in another execution in the remaining few days of this administration. After 17 years without a federal execution, Lisa Montgomery became the 11th prisoner to be executed since July when Trump resumed federal executions. He is still trying to fast-track the execution of two more federal death row inmates before he leaves office. President Trump wants them dead before Biden, who has indicated that he opposes the federal death penalty, takes over on January 20th.
“I don’t know if you remember me,” he wrote to her, “ … but out of the respect I have for you and how highly you used to speak of your son in class and brag about him I just wanted you to know you guys are in my prayers and I wanted to know if there’s anything I can do to raise money or anything that will help.”
The maturity and empathy shown by a then-teenager was not lost on Thomas-St. Clair, and a friendship with Goodson soon formed.
“Casey was my refuel at a time I wanted to throw in the towel. He was my reason to keep pouring my soul into my current students, she said in a statement. He became my constant motivation when the frustrations would outweigh the purpose. Casey did not know each time he randomly checked on me, he was the lighter that would relight my candle of passion when the career barriers seemed to be too much.”
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