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...same department knows his flips from his flops. The tender concern for prisoners on death row? Bush approved 152 executions in Texas and as The Atlantic pointed out so vividly, 57 of them were based on shabby "execution summary" memos written by his counsel, Alberto Gonzales. As Alan Berlow, who wrote the piece, noted, in the case of Terry Washington, "a brain-damaged and retarded man, Gonzales never informed Bush that Washington's incompetent attorney never called a mental health expert to testify, never advised the jury that his client was retarded or that he had an IQ between...
...well. We believe you will find the new design of the pages cleaner and more direct, making it easier for you to find what most interests you. We have replaced Times Roman, the body typeface since the 1940s, with Time Text, drawn for us by Boston type designer David Berlow. The type is based on sturdy, clear styles like Century and Madison, which became popular in American newspapers at the last turn of the century. While you may notice that some pictures are bigger, the overall balance between photos and text has not changed...
...while Berlow worked in a factory, drove a truck, and tried to convince Harvard that he should finish his undergraduate degree program. Giving up, finally, he finished his B.A. at Boston University, switching from his Harvard concentration--political science--to music. He now works in an MIT laboratory, developing computer systems for children...
...Berlow never considered appearing before the Committee of Fifteen when he was summoned: "The position of most students at the time was that they were out to get us." Because he did not attend his hearing, Berlow knows little of the committee's internal proceedings. He and other students did, however, know by word-of-mouth the names of those who presented testimony against them. Deans were not the only ones. "A number of students were known to be informants," Berlow says...
...most part Berlow did not spend much time thinking about the CRR, because its goal--the preservation of correct and respectful behavior--seemed irrelevant in light of events in the world outside. "The war," he concluded then and concludes now, "was a hell of a lot more important than behaving in a gentlemanly manner...