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...ruling, the Justices approved a speeded-up method of processing the last-ditch legal maneuvers of condemned prisoners. Thomas Andy Barefoot, 37, convicted in the shooting death of a police officer in Bell County, Texas, had filed a direct state court appeal, a previous petition to the Supreme Court, state court habeas corpus proceedings and, when all those failed, a federal habeas corpus petition, which reached the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit last November. The appeals court denied his plea for a stay of execution...
Then came the summer when you were sent home from the front, after the fresh troops got there, and the first thing you saw when you got to the States was the barefoot girls in their summer dresses pedaling bicycles past the sea. In your jacket you carried a photograph of the soldier that had been you, a keepsake of the afternoon you sank your boots firmly in the sand that slopes into the Mediterranean that lies beside Beirut. In the photograph you looked older than the cliché-older than the hills. You would fetch the picture from your...
Despite Gould's exertions, this June cannot compete with certain earlier hymeneal splendors. The '60s and the '70s were the great epoch of the improvisational, personalized wedding ceremony-preferably performed in a sun-shot meadow, the bride barefoot and vaguely pagan, Chloë going to Daphnis...
...MacLachlan, 20, wears faded jeans, a plaid shirt and a blue headband to keep his flowing blond hair at bay. He is barefoot. On this night he is running through the SPICE program on a $70,000 Symbolics LM2 computer. The project's goal: to provide a network (a group of interconnected computers) with almost unlimited memory and computation power. He also uses the terminal to play games-Star Wars, Splines and Worm-devised by students and faculty members at C.M.U. and other schools...
...drink. But all of a sudden about 30 masked men, brandishing axes and hatchets, swarmed into the dusty Andean settlement, setting fire to the municipal hall and pillaging local shops. As the terrified residents scrambled for cover, the intruders rounded up scores of villagers, including wizened old women and barefoot children, and proceeded to stone, hack and shoot many of them to death. After less than two hours, the attackers vanished back into the hills, leaving at least 66 corpses in their wake...