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...Texas's governor pursued the presidency, endless newspaper and magazine articles detailed the conditions of the state's public defense system. National newspapers recounted stories of defense lawyers missing court dates, forgetting to visit their clients, even falling asleep during death penalty trials because they were alternately lazy, underpaid or caught up in a system of cronyism with judges. The election's exposure led many Texans, appalled by the conditions in their own state, to start asking questions...
...have his briefing book for the following day in the Oval Office no later than 6 p.m. Even so, by then Bush has frequently punched out and headed back to the residence. He likes to have dinner every night at 7 and is almost always in bed and asleep...
Gleick dissects the average person's day: seven hours and 18 minutes asleep, one hour and 13 minutes of driving, four minutes of government paperwork, four and a half hours of housework, 45 minutes of physical activity, 52 minutes on the phone, 31 minutes of childcare, 16 minutes looking for lost objects, four minutes on sex, etc. Many of these averages are much lower than they have been in the past. But when added up, the number of minutes spent on daily activities far exceeds the total number of minutes in a day. Not only is every second filled with...
...Last Wednesday night on the final day of the census India's homeless were counted. In the narrow, crowded backstreets of old Delhi the enumerators spread out in pairs to wake up those asleep and take down the details of their lives. The man who ran an open-air "hostel"?some two dozen charpoys (woven twine and wooden beds) parked illegally on the pavement behind the city's great mosque?threatened the census clerks with a "good thrashing" if they didn't leave. "We find this all the time," one clerk sighed. "People think we are government spies. They still...
When I was 18, he told me he wouldn't pay a penny for my college education, and so I worked my way through school and thereby got the gift of independence, an inestimable gift. But I stand in the doorway and look at him, asleep, and I am afraid of him. He is still my dad, and his power is greater than that of the New York Times...