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...network newscasts were over and deadlines for early editions of the New York Times and Washington Post had passed. The public galleries in the Senate chamber were deserted, and only a couple of reporters lingered in the press room. Surveying the emptiness last Wednesday night, Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia decided conditions were ideal for the Senate to hand itself a whopping pay raise. As if by magic, 98 of the 100 Senators appeared out of the night to vote, 53 to 45, to raise their annual salaries from $101,900 to $125,100 -- an increase of nearly...
Alarmed by the aggressiveness of the religious extremists, 43 moderate businessmen and intellectuals petitioned Fahd to fulfill his pledge to make the government more democratic. "A Consultative Council is a symbol of participation that will help educate the public," says Abdul Muhsin al-Akkas, an executive of the Riyadh Chamber of Commerce and Industry. "We are not yet ready for free elections, but it is a step forward." In response, the religious conservatives marshaled support in the mosques for the implementation of Shari'a. Last month religious leaders in the conservative stronghold of Buraida spread rumors that a popular sheik...
This Friday, a federal court in San Francisco will decide whether KQED, a public television station in California, has the right to film the gas-chamber execution of Robert Alton Harris, a career criminal convicted of murdering two teenage boys 12 years ago. Harris will be the first inmate executed in California since voters reinstituted capital punishment in a 1978 statewide referendum...
With the recession hanging on like a pall, many of the nation's big retail outlets are beginning to resemble mausoleums. Merchandise sales are dismally flat this year. Still, not every store is an echo chamber. A few novel retailing ideas have captured the attention of otherwise moribund buyers. The success of some may signal that shopping preferences and rituals are changing, while others may be nothing more than passing fads. As the great philosopher Confucius -- yes, Confucius! -- once said, "To open a shop is easy; to keep it open is an art." Here are three works of modern retailing...
...video images are also easy to imagine. Harris being strapped to a chair. Cyanide pellets dropping into sulfuric acid. Fumes filling San Quentin's green-walled gas chamber. Harris gasping his final breaths, twitching...