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...Lack of funds is the first and foremost reason we have the situation we do," says Stephen Bright, who heads Atlanta's Southern Center for Human Rights. State public defenders and court-appointed lawyers typically make less than other lawyers--sometimes less than the minimum wage. Alabama's legislature last year voted an increase in the $1,000 top fee for lawyers handling death-penalty cases only to have the Governor veto it. In New York fees are actually shrinking; the state's chief judge recently reduced fees for lawyers representing death-penalty cases...
Compare Moondoggie to Lovelle Menzie, who just completed his junior year at Morehouse College in Atlanta. As a summer intern at New York City's Chase Manhattan Bank, he plans to fit right into the city that never sleeps. "We've been told that if we are given a project at 10 a.m., it may require that we work straight through for 24 hours until it's done," says Menzie. What's more, he had to fight for those 100-hour workweeks. Wall Street internships are so prized that it's not uncommon for students to steal application materials...
...protests from readers, both black and white, have shown that many are not ready to laugh at their own prejudices. "Not all black people are hoodlums," wrote a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel subscriber. Others see the strip as antiwhite. "I think you should offer David Dukes equal room," fumed an Atlanta Journal-Constitution reader. Two small papers, in Aiken, S.C., and Massilon, Ohio, have canceled the strip. "Our readers couldn't see the humor," said Scott Hunter, publisher of the Aiken Standard...
With 28-year-old HSING-HSING suffering from a probably fatal kidney ailment and LING-LING dead, the Smithsonian's National Zoo is in discussions with China about acquiring another pair of giant pandas. Both the San Diego Zoo, which has a pair of pandas on loan, and Zoo Atlanta, which has been promised a pair, have pledged the going giant-panda price tag: $1 million a year...
With 28-year-old Hsing-Hsing suffering from a probably fatal kidney ailment and Ling-Ling dead, the Smithsonian's National Zoo is in discussions with China about acquiring another pair of giant pandas. Both the San Diego Zoo, which has a pair of pandas on loan, and Zoo Atlanta, which has been promised a pair, have pledged the going giant-panda price tag: $1 million a year. But the National Zoo, where admission is free, doesn't have such deep pockets. Its fund-raisers have pledged $2.5 million over the next 10 years, plus help in conducting a panda...