Word: byronic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...death penalty cases they have reviewed since 1976 does not seem to faze the Supreme Court. Instead the court's insistent message is that defendants are represented adequately in the state courts, so federal appeals are unnecessarily redundant. In last week's habeas corpus decision, for instance, Justice Byron White wrote, "It is hardly a good use of scarce judicial resources to duplicate fact finding in federal court merely because a petitioner has negligently failed to take advantage of opportunities in state- court proceedings...
Other cities--including Baltimore and Seattle--have begun efforts similar to the Berkeley Cares Program, according to Byron A. Kemp, a member of the program's board of directors...
...checking is another matter altogether. Byron S. Harvey has seen...
...Chinese government is still much more secretive and reluctant to provide ammunition for its critics. But two new books -- The New Emperors: China in the Era of Mao and Deng by Harrison E. Salisbury (Little, Brown; 544 pages; $24.95) and The Claws of the Dragon: Kang Sheng by John Byron and Robert Pack (Simon & Schuster; 560 pages; $27.50) -- indicate that glasnost is coming, inexorably, to Beijing. They provide the most detailed and personal accounts so far of the chaos, cruelty and corruption that Mao Zedong's reign inflicted on the nation...
...Claws of the Dragon, Byron and Pack focus on the career of the sinister Kang Sheng, relying mainly on an official Chinese biography that was prepared when Kang was posthumously expelled from the Communist Party in 1980. Pack is an investigative reporter, and Byron is the nom de plume of a "Western diplomat" who is apparently an intelligence officer. He picked up the internal document from a Chinese contact on a dark street in Beijing...