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...overhaul of capital punishment, but as in all previous overhauls, the changes quickly spawned new nuances to appeal. Ten years later, one of the most skillful anti-death-penalty lawyers in the country, Mark Olive, summed up the impact of the grandly titled Anti-terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, saying "It gave us 10 years of fresh issues to litigate...
Voters sense correctly that politics is an act. As a political campaign gets more and more professionalized, it becomes more and more of an act. This is one area in which the media and the voters really diverge. Political correspondents respect the professionalism of a well-run campaign and are quickly bored by complaints of artifice. Voters, meanwhile, still take offense and long for sincerity. This explains the cult of Harry Truman, which usually breaks out around October of election years. Among the current candidates, it explains John McCain, whose behavior as a prisoner of war brings him about...
Small distilleries were as common as cows in American farming communities before the Volstead Act banned the "manufacture, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors" in the U.S. in 1919. Indeed, the No. 1-selling spirits marketer of the early Republic was George Washington, whose Mount Vernon estate sold 11,000 gal. (42,000 L) of whiskey a year at 50¢ a gal. (3.8 L). After Prohibition was repealed in 1933, the small wine and beer industries eventually got back on their feet, but hard liquor was considered more harmful and the prohibitively priced licenses for distilling spirits meant that only...
...lawyers. Later, she said nothing to stop Musharraf from ordering the expulsion of Nawaz Sharif to Saudi Arabia, which removed from the election her most formidable democratic opponent. Many of her supporters regarded her deal with Musharraf as a betrayal of all her party stood for. Her final act, in her will, was to hand her party to her husband, as if it were her personal family fief...
...million, Odinga was one million votes in the lead. Election officials in Kibaki's strongholds then disappeared with the ballot boxes, only to reappear with dramatically enhanced tallies for the President, who was promptly declared the winner and sworn in less than an hour later. Kibaki's first act was to ban live TV and radio broadcasts of the resulting unrest. With the U.S., U.K. and Kenya's own Electoral Commission questioning the result, Odinga is demanding that Kabika admit that he lost...