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According to forensic experts, on the afternoon of June 8, Terry Lynn Barton didn't just strike a match; she struck three--in multiple defiance of the fire ban she was duty-bound to enforce in Colorado's sun-sere parks. Barton eventually confessed that she got out of her truck, headed for a campfire circle, lighted the two-page letter and left once it had burned. Soon after, she returned to find grass burning. As the first-response forestry fire fighter, she radioed for help and began containment efforts. But the prosecutor alleges that she wanted the fire...
...them to be executed are bracing for a 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...
...That's why it's imperative that Pinto, if he threw a punch, be disciplined more severely. A two-year ban plus a hefty six-figure fine sounds about right. As hosts of Euro 2004, the Portuguese have a responsibility to live up to the best traditions of the game. If they won't do it voluntarily, perhaps they can be persuaded by the fear of sanction...
...about doctrines that are not central to the faith. No one is disputing anything in the creed we recite each Sunday. The issues that have led to this gulf between hierarchy and laity, between institution and people, are not integral to what it means to be a Catholic. The ban on birth control--reaffirmed by fiat by Pope Paul VI after many leading theologians and church officials seemed poised to reverse it--is not an issue as vital as, say, the divinity of Christ, the fact of the Resurrection or the miracle of the Mass. A celibate priesthood...
Laurence Steinberg, a Temple University psychologist who studies adolescents, hears a familiar tune. "Adults have always been upset by the provocative nature of teenage dancing," he says. "When the twist was introduced, high school principals were saying they wanted to ban that...