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Even now, she admits to being at a nexus; driving her truck and taking classes, doing her homework at 4 in the morning, falling asleep in the library, staying awake behind the wheel. A severe shoulder injury at work in October has forced her to look at things with a new perspective and wonder if it’s time to concentrate all her energies on education...
...showing up at the office. The Calcutta Stock Exchange, India's third- largest and one of the most venerable in Asia, looks like some backwater bus depot, rather than the bustling hub it used to be. Hallways are darkened and quiet. Many of the brokers appear to be either asleep on a bench or playing solitaire on the exchange's computer terminals. Desolate bourse employees sit idle, spitting red betel-nut juice on the walls. "Everyone is just loitering about," says Vivek Mahajan, a broker and former vice president of the exchange. "They have nothing...
...career last this long? "She couldn't have got away with this if she weren't supported by prosecutors, ignored by judges and police who did nothing," says Wilson, who filed the original complaint against her 14 years ago. "The police department was asleep at the switch." The D.A.'s office simply says Gilchrist should not be tried in the media. But one prosecutor, who declined to be named, lays blame on the aggressive tactics of D.A. Bob Macy, who's proud to have sent more people to death row than any other active D.A. in the country...
...professor at Boston College?s law school, who declares no particular position on execution: I think this is just a chapter in an ever-expanding book of cases for death penalty opponents. Along with the chapter of how corruption affected convictions in Illinois and how defense lawyers were falling asleep in court in Texas...
Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies: A Variety of Whimsical Verse...