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Autry thus became the most vivid symbol to date of the seemingly endless legal confusion and complication that have characterized attempts to carry out the death penalty since the Supreme Court revived it in 1976. Recently, the court has sought to expedite the labyrinthine appeals process, but to little avail as yet. The Autry case seemed to be typical of how the Justices would like to see such cases handled. In 1980, Autry was sentenced to death for murdering Store Clerk Shirley Drouet, 43, in Port Arthur, Texas, when the mother of five asked...
...main concerns are "What happened" and "What forms of response are available." Most students need more than that kind of help in what is, by its very nature, a painful or troubling process Other kinds of help are more appropriately sought from others who have no formal role in the complaint process Senior Tutors, Senior Advisers or other friends are able to provide emotional support that complements my procedural efforts In fact, almost every student who has come to talk with me about an instructional relationship made troubling by some "amorous" aspects, or by sexual correction, has already...
...open with six unanswered goals before halftime. "They were getting good shots from the crease," said one of the harried Crimson defensemen, Brian Edmonds. "It's tough to stop it," he said of the growing Big Green momentum, "even with a timeout"--which Coach Bob Scalise called, to no avail...
...Panthers tested Pendergast with low shots in later crucial spots with little success--especially when Cook whipped one from 15 feet early in the second half, to no avail. The crowd of 150 gave the senior playing his final home game a deserved round of applause when he left the game with seven minutes left, having allowed seven goals...
...behavior of the super-powers. We consider accurate understanding of this point to be of such importance that we have published two short pamphlets on the subject. Indeed we consider the subject urgent due to the current oscillatory excalation in preparations for war. Perhaps your reporter did not avail himself of this opportunity for clarification because he feels the arguments is trivial. There is an unfortunate tendency throughout the American mass media irresponsibly to trivialize urgent matters and to dwell on the trivial. Let me assure you that the question of the nature of mass social pathology, and the role...