Word: appealing
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Even if Kaczynski is convicted, he may avoid execution. Stanford law professor Babcock speculates that he would appeal to the Supreme Court, probably without success, and then, as the execution date approached, would have writs brought arguing that he's too insane to be executed. "We want people to know what is happening to them and why it's happening, and not have any illusions about it," says Babcock. "So actual crazy people can't be executed." Kaczynski, Babcock believes, will have a new hobby once this trial is over. "Being in jail and running his case is what...
Microsoft is currently considering whether to appeal the decision, according to company spokesperson Jim W. Cullanin...
...Seinfeld: A Broadcast Phenomenon," full of neat and colorful charts--SEINFELD MORE DOMINANT THAN EVER--demonstrating that, unlike most shows that reach a ninth season, Seinfeld's audience was still growing, at least in the only demographic category that matters, adults ages 18 to 49. In a particularly sneaky appeal to Seinfeld's ego, the presentation included a graph showing his show's gains over the past five seasons, in contrast to the losses for fellow stand-up Tim Allen's Home Improvement...
...canny and generally successful appeal to the youth market, this film streamlines Henry James's notoriously dense novel, bringing its melodramatic and erotic undertones to the forefront. A well-bred but dowerless English girl (Helena Bonham-Carter), secretly engaged to an equally impecunious journalist (Linus Roache), persuades her lover to court a young American heiress dying of TB (Alison Elliott). The plot thickens as the three take a pleasure trip to Venice. The scenes in Italy are lovely, and the three stars give superb performances--esp. Bonham-Carter, who brilliantly captures the complexities of her character. --Lynn...
Anger is the tactic that Stevens uses to appeal to the bereft parents. "Let me direct your rage," he asks the parents, without providing any concrete target. Even he is unsure who to blame: the town, the school board or the bus company. It only matters to him, and many of the survivors, that someone pay, even if he or she is not truly responsible...