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Finishing close behind were the Convict, Bat, and Birth Control crews with times of 15:03, 15:25, and 15:31, respectively...
...Rendell fans, it may be a bit disappointing to learn that neither book features sly, plump, kindly old Reg Wexford and stern, judgmental, middle-aged John Burden. Live Flesh rests instead on a daring premise: a released convict's obsessive determination to make a friend of the policeman whom he shot and paralyzed while resisting capture. The policeman and the reader are alternately encouraged to believe in this felon's capacity for rehabilitation and disillusioned by his consuming selfishness. Complicating the uneasy relationship is the criminal's growing attraction toward the woman whom the policeman means to marry and cannot...
...most unlikely Republican candidate is Cleaver, 50, the former Black Panther leader whose campaign office is decorated with his convict photo and old Panther posters. His hair is graying, and he now wears fraying business suits in place of the outrageous codpiece he sported in the '70s. But Cleaver proved that he remains a powerful orator, telling delegates to the California Republican Convention that he is "a man with the courage to change, to grow" and one who now is determined to defeat the Democrats, "who have made black people dependent on the federal budget." He drew the most enthusiastic...
...supporting one of the jewelry-store robberies or other holdups to which he admits. Says Claire Sterling, author of an influential book, The Time of the Assassins, which argues that there was indeed a plot: "I believe in the Bulgarian connection, but frankly, I couldn't have voted to convict those defendants on that evidence...
...fact, Meese's statements constitute far more than the incoherent ramblings of a narrow-minded ideologue, since they typify a broad repressive trend within the criminal justice system. Increasingly, this attitude has characterized a significant proportion of the people in positions to convict criminals, sentence them, strike down their appeals, sign their death warrants, and flick the switch on the chair. Juvenile execution is simply the most obvious example, since the execution of minors requires an idea brutal and convincing enough to obliterate the traditional sympathies which compel us to extend lenience to children...