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...rioting, as hundreds of fires burned. But by 2 p.m. the following day, as the looting continued, the troops were still not on the streets. Wilson demanded an explanation, and was told that the Guard was short of ammunition. Asked the onetime Marine: "If you give each man one bullet, and a larger quantity to unit commanders, can you, No. 1, ensure the Guard's safety and, No. 2, accomplish your mission?" Guard commanders said they could. Wilson exploded, "Then divide up the f ---ing ammunition and get out there!" Before order was restored, other state officials even considered placing...
Perot has long maintained that position papers and seven-point plans are insignificant, and many voters seem to agree. Indeed, writers in such publications as The Washington Monthly have suggested that silver-bullet, Clinton-style specifics may somehow reveal a lack of real substance...
...J.F.K. was shot by a lone gunman from the rear. Their belated postmortem report will not end the debate, but those who believe otherwise now have to contend with the detailed description of a "beveled" hole punched in Kennedy's skull that could have been made only by a bullet coming from above and behind...
...other countries that still punish by death, the technology of execution is simpler. A handful favor the headsman's ax or the even more ancient practice of stoning to death. The rest employ either the rope or the bullet, both of which have fallen into near total disuse in the U.S. Outside the U.S., capital punishment in the 1990s is usually associated with underdevelopment or lack of democracy, usually both. The death penalty no longer exists in any European Community country. Most of the nations of the former Soviet bloc have abolished it, and the rest are considering doing...
...burning at the stake, flaying to death, crushing, impaling, drowning, crucifying, drawing and quartering, disemboweling, gibbeting, garroting, throwing to lions and much, much worse. Cyanide, by comparison, is a sweet pink poof of cessation. Would last week's witnesses have been happier if California had used a neat bullet to the base of the brain (the method the Chinese authorities favor now)? Or if the state had injected Harris with a lethal shot of cocaine so that he would depart in a blinding rush of pleasure? What was truly cruel and unusual -- virtually sadistic -- was the way that the quarreling...