Word: circuitous
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When Johnson announced his retirement last year from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers Alabama, Georgia and Florida, the White House came up with an unlikely replacement: Edward E. Carnes, 41, Alabama's assistant attorney general in charge of pursuing death-penalty cases. And pursue them he does. Carnes wrote Alabama's death-penalty law, which allows judges to impose the death penalty on convicted killers even when juries have opted for life in prison. He led a national effort by state attorneys general to curb the opportunities for death-row prisoners to appeal their cases before federal...
...attracting black middle-class supporters. So they have switched their emphasis to family values with a sexual subtext -- Murphy Brown, out-of-the-closet gay militance, condom distribution in the schools, sexual flamboyance in publicly funded art projects, and so on. Dan Quayle and others working the values circuit like to encourage the feeling that the American id is dangerously seeping up through the floorboards: Clamp down the superego...
...Electronics, for example, the leading U.S. producer of television sets, has already moved many of its operations from Taiwan to Mexico, and two months ago closed its Asian assembly plant altogether. Without a Mexican base, Zenith guesses, it would have lost about 4,000 U.S. jobs from its Chicago circuit-board plant and its Missouri molding and assembly factory. Another 2,000 to 5,000 supplier jobs would have vanished as well...
...Street, its proudest artifacts the bejeweled jumpsuits displayed in a shrine to its patron saint, Elvis. But these days such attractions are being upstaged by a succession of museum-quality jewels, porcelains, gilded carriages and statuary. Yes, in Memphis. The city has managed to put itself on the international circuit of blockbuster art shows. Its current offering: Splendors of the Ottoman Sultans, an opulent array of 274 possessions of the militarily ruthless yet artistically keen Turks who ruled a wedge of Europe and Asia for nearly six centuries. Gathered from the legendary Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul and other Ottoman...
...strategy instead of the high- tech approach. Elton John and Eric Clapton have teamed up for a joint tour that will play stadiums in New York and Los Angeles this month. Heavy-metal masters Guns N' Roses and Metallica, who recently completed separate arena tours, have joined for a circuit of stadium concerts in 22 cities across the country, through Sept. 4. The combined show, with an opening act by Faith No More and full sets from Metallica and Guns N' Roses, lasts 5 1/2 hours, at the end of which Guns N' Roses vocalist and lead delinquent Axl Rose...