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...Commonwealth of Virginia did. It decided on Joseph Patrick Payne, a soft-spoken, 40-year-old eighth-grade dropout who is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Nov. 7. Yet Payne, while hardly a model citizen, may be innocent of this murder: his attorney has a stack of affidavits maintaining that the crime was committed by the man who became the state's star witness against Payne, as well as a signed document in which that witness confesses to framing him. Why, then, is Joe Payne still facing execution? "That's got me baffled," he admits...
...FAMILY: Wife, Beverly; three children RELIGION: Methodist MILITARY: National Guard, 1948-57 OCCUPATION: Insurance executive; public official POLITICAL CAREER: Florida Senate, 1961-71, minority leader, 1967-70; U.S. House, 1970- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 1996, St. Petersburg 33731. Tel.: 813-547-8644 From his humble beginnings as a high school dropout in a Pennsylvania mining town, Young has worked his way to a position of power and influence in the House. As chair of the National Security Subcommittee, he has fought cuts in defense and intelligence funding, and has used his influence to funnel military spending to the 10th, the home...
...sudden, Bill Gates, Harvard's most famous dropout, has coughed up $25 million for, guess what, a new computer science/engineering building. Now many of you may think I'm implying that Satan somehow persuaded Gates to carry out Satan's side of the unholy bargain allegedly made so many years ago behind a closed office door. But the answer is not that complex. The simple fact is that Bill Gates is not a tool of the antichrist. He is, in fact, the antichrist himself. And all the proof this journalist needs is contained within an e-mail chain letter...
...Gates, a dropout of the class of 1977, said in the release that a new building and supplemented faculty will "promote an interdisciplinary approach that will encourage great ideas from a diverse group of smart people working closely together...
...anyone familiar with the litany of distress knows, choice in some form is appealing. Falling test scores, rising dropout rates and poor teaching demand drastic change...