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...Later that year, he won the Most Improved Award among tight ends, but a right hamstring injury suffered during the second game of the 1996 season tied him to the bench for most of his sophomore year...
...nomination is dead now, politics having excluded a worthy candidate from the bench, but it still causes tempers to flare in Missouri. Because many minority nominees are still held up in committee, Ashcroft and the Senate have been accused of racism. A rally was held in St. Louis to protest White's rejection only a week ago, and Judge White is occasionally referred to by supporters as "Judge Not White Enough...
Ashcroft's campaign against Judge White-- and whatever success it may bring to his campaign against Carnahan in 2000--sends the message to all state judges that if they want to get on the federal bench, they'd better start upholding some death penalties. When a case is hard, as Judge White found Missouri v. Johnson, and when the defendant's right to a new trial is unclear, how will those judges decide? The perverse political incentives make it seem inevitable that a defendant who may not deserve the death penalty will some day receive it because the judges...
George W. Bush knows the question is coming. He is sitting in the back of a silver Ford Windstar minivan, his compact frame unfurled across the bench seat, his left arm slung across the backrest. He appears completely relaxed, but when the question arrives--the one about whether he has the intellectual wherewithal to be President and whether it bothers him that this issue keeps being raised in the campaign--his body tenses. He turns his face forward, his eyes narrow, and he gazes out the windshield at the long road ahead. "You know," Bush says, his voice tinny...
...world as we knew it has changed forever. There are four girls on the Lincoln High varsity, all of them 16-year-old juniors except for Cruz. And it's not as if they're just bench warmers. Although none of them start, they all play on special teams and as backups, and coach Leo Castro doesn't hesitate to send them out there. "They're not afraid to take the hits," says Castro, which is a good thing, because Lincoln is 0-8 going into the game against 8-0 Franklin. "I'll put them in before...