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...danger caused by improper selection of defense counsel is heightened by the reluctance of appeals courts in Texas to grant new trials to defendants whose court-appointed lawyers were incompetent. In three cases, Texas courts have upheld convictions in death penalty cases where the defense lawyer fell asleep during the trial. The trial judge ruled that the Constitution may guarantee the right to a lawyer, but it "does not say the lawyer has to be awake"; this judgment was affirmed, although not in so many words, by the highest criminal court in the state. Without a meaningful check on their...
...were asleep for the first game," said freshman setter Mike Bookman. "But then we woke up and finished them off pretty easily...
Among the stories he tells are those of an obstetrician whose marriage is bitterly unraveling as he attempts to prevent a rape victim and her husband from aborting a child, and of a feckless youth who falls asleep on a palette of relief supplies and, dropped into a war zone, discovers his purpose. It is Dizdar's cool objectivity --his refusal to dwell on anyone's troubles (or triumphs)--that makes his portrait of good hearts overcoming emotional Balkanization the best movie of this very young millennium...
...like a character out of Horatio Alger. Bradley didn't cosset himself in a limo but drove his own battered Oldsmobile, wore the same no-designer tie day after day and had shoes so worn that a Congressman said someone should steal them off his feet while he was asleep and shine them...
...teachers in the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics shows that 37% of children ages 4 to 11 have sleep problems. And parents often don't know it. Teachers said at least 10% of their students struggle to stay awake. The kids reported more difficulties, like trouble falling asleep or waking at night, than their parents had noticed. Parents should keep alert and talk to their kids, teachers and doctors...