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With a national championship and a dual-match victory over Princeton under its belt it's hard to believe that anything could stand between the undefeated Harvard men's squash team and a perfect season...
...heard of the Bible Belt will this is the Chastity Belt...
...bolted to the floor near the back of a 12-ft. by 18-ft. room. You sit on a seat of cracked rubber secured by rows of copper tacks. Your ankles are strapped into half-moon-shaped foot cuffs lined with canvas. A 2-in.-wide greasy leather belt with 28 buckle holes and worn grooves where it has been pulled very tight many times is secured around your waist just above the hips. A cool metal cone encircles your head. You are now only moments away from death...
...time of Furman it was widely recognized that the system was unquestionably stacked against black defendants, especially in the "death belt" of the South. Some of the racism has been wrung out. Yet clear bias remains, much attributable to prosecutorial choices. A recent study of homicide cases in Houston's Harris County is troubling. In cases where a black or Chicano had killed a white, 65% of defendants were tried for capital murder; only 25% of whites who killed a black or Chicano faced the death penalty. "I don't think it's overt racism," says University...
...narrated a documentary called People Like Us. It portrayed four families as innocent victims of social welfare cuts, despite Reagan's contention that the truly needy were still protected by a "social safety net." White House Communications Director David Gergen angrily charged that the documentary hit "below the belt," and that some of Moyers' examples were misleading. CBS stood by the program, and Moyers has continued to jab at Reaganomics in his Evening News commentaries. In December, for example, he began an analysis with these assertions: "This country is in trouble. People are hurting. The people who govern...