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...flood of petitions claiming mental incapacity. In Texas the Dallas Morning News' review of the state's 455 death-row inmates identified at least 20 who raised mental deficiency as an issue at trial or on appeal. North Carolina adopted a ban on executing the retarded last August. Ken Rose, the executive director of the North Carolina Center for Death Penalty Litigation, says that of the 213 condemned killers in his state, "about 50" have petitioned for retrial on that basis...
...kind of music," says Beth Halper, the DreamWorks A.-and-R. executive who signed Nelly Furtado. That backlash has taken the form of three solo artists who might be termed the Authentic Girls: Michelle Branch, 19, whose CD The Spirit Room has sold close to a million copies since August, according to SoundScan; Vanessa Carlton, 21, whose first effort, Be Not Nobody, has sold 300,000 copies in its three months of release; and Avril Lavigne, 17, whose first album, Let Go, debuted at No. 8 on the Billboard 200 this month. They're young popstresses who write their...
Both were scheduled to appear in court on June 17, but their appearance was delayed until August 6, at the request of the prosecution...
...selflessness, or was it self-serving? Many readers weren't all that quick to call her a hero. "True whistle-blowers try to expose their organization's shortcomings before they cause problems, not after," argued a Californian. "Why didn't Rowley put her job on the line back in August, before the attacks? That would've taken real guts." A Floridian dismissed Rowley as "a woman in a midlife crisis trying to get some attention," and another Sunshine Stater derided the memo as "a bid for publicity as she plans her next career move--in Hollywood." But to a California...
...them to lease JetBlue all the 27 remaining slots for large carriers (14 others were already being used by American Airlines, America West Airlines and cargo planes) and to let JetBlue wait an unprecedented two years to use those slots. JetBlue began service between J.F.K. and Long Beach last August with two arrivals and departures a day. And for a while the big carriers didn't notice or didn't care...