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...accountability. The endless and expensive appeals reflect our scrupulous belief in consistency and individual justice. This is also a nation of widely dispersed power--many states, cities and jurisdictions. Out of this diversity has emerged the staggering intricacy of death-penalty law, as thousands of judges and legislators from coast to coast struggle to breathe real-life meaning into such abstract issues as what constitutes effective counsel, what is the proper balance of authority between judge and jury, what makes a murder "especially heinous," what qualities and defects in a prisoner compel mercy...
While a team’s non-conference record doesn’t matter in the standings—as the Ivy League knows all too well after watching the Crimson coast to a conference title after an abysmal performance in November and December last season—Harvard recognizes the importance of being able to work out its kinks and identify its shortcomings before the games that count begin...
...today. We're the only state in the South where people are moving out faster than they're moving in. Every year we're losing about 30,000 of our people. And we're a rich state. Thirty percent of the nation's oil and gas comes off our coast. Thirty percent of the fisheries come off our coast. Five of the nation's largest ports. We've got all kinds of advantages...
...Indeed many Koreans admire Lee, a can-do former Seoul mayor and rags-to-riches industry tycoon with a personal fortune estimated at $38 million (making him the wealthiest among the presidential candidates). Lee grew up in a poor family in the east coast town of Pohang, became a senior executive at the conglomerate Hyundai at age 36 and played a role in the nation's rapid economic development in the 1970s and '80s. As mayor of Seoul from 2002 to 2006, Lee won praise for his management of the city, putting an end to recurring subway strikes and creating...
...Eric Volz was found guilty of murdering his Nicaraguan ex-girlfriend Doris Ivania Jimenez. She had been found hogtied, raped and strangled to death in the back of her clothing boutique in the touristy beach town of San Juan del Sur on Nicaragua's Pacific coast. However, a second man, Julio Martin Chamorro, a small-town bully with the reputation of being a "tourist leech," stood trial alongside Volz and was also found guilty of the murder. Both he and Volz were sentenced to 30 years in prison...