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CORI critics march to State House in search of fair shake

Yawu Miller

While serving his nine-year sentence for armed robbery, Rashid Hakim learned a thing or two about rehabilitation. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees behind bars.

Since being released in 1999, he’s learned a thing or two about the CORI law.

“I’ve been out eight years and I can’t find work,” said Hakim, who traveled from Worcester to Boston last week for the March for Jobs and CORI Reform. Full story

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Retired Middlesex Superior Court Judge Julian Houston

Noted civil rights attorney and Harvard Law School Professor Charles J. Ogletree Jr. throws out the first pitch as part of the Boston Red Sox’ commemoration of Jackie Robinson on Sunday, April 22. More on Scenes

Professor had Va. Tech gunman removed from class

Allen G. Breed

BLACKSBURG, Va. — The mood in the basketball arena was defeated, funereal. Nikki Giovanni seemed an unlikely source of strength for a Virginia Tech campus reeling from the depravity of one of its own.
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FROM THE
EDITOR’S DESK

Beyond the
Virginia Tech tragedy
The university has always been a very special place. The “best and brightest” can remove themselves from the mundane affairs of the world and focus their intellects on advancing civilization. Conflicts are usually limited to heated debate on the scholarly issues of the day.

This idyllic image of academe was so strong that most people had forgotten the day in the summer of 1966 when Charles Whitman climbed to the top of the 307-foot Tower of the University of Texas and proceeded to kill 15 students and faculty and wound 31 others before he was shot dead by police. Full editorial

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