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...remember back to the primaries he was positively giddy at times. Interestingly, the swing states of the Midwest are basically anti?death penalty. Michigan, for instance, doesn't have the DP and GOP governor John Engler opposes it. So does Minnesota's Jesse Ventura. I don't think hang-'em-high helps Bush...
...answering the most important complaint about his previous modus operandi--an overreliance on lawyers and lawsuits. Important social-policy decisions should be made by the voters and their representatives, not by unelected judges. So now Ralph is saying, with Buchananesque bravura: You want the voters to decide? O.K., bring 'em...
...troops] experienced difficulties tempering their combat mentality for adapting and transitioning to the Kosovo [mission]," Col. John Morgan III concluded in a report released Monday at the Pentagon. "In [this] environment, the unit's overly aggressive tendencies were manifested in practices such as the unit slogan, 'Shoot 'em in the face,' and their standard operating procedure of pointing the M-4 carbine weapon system with the attached maglight in the face of local nationals in order to illuminate their faces...
Many cancer patients experience horrible pain near death, and even the best oncologists don't always know how to ease it. "I got the usual--'Load 'em with codeine'--and I couldn't focus across the room," Cummins recalled. The drugs sapped his will to do anything but stare at Knicks games. A friend who also has cancer phoned one day to ask if he had tried any new treatments. No. "It hit me," Cummins said later, weeping at the memory. "I had just given...
...just an interpreter of pain but a witness to it, as in Bang the Drum Slowly, about her late father, or the title tune, about a childhood friend with a run of bad luck ("One thing they don't tell you 'bout the blues when you got 'em/ You keep on fallin' 'cause there ain't no bottom"). Her glottal throb on these dozen tunes purifies the funereal sentiments; it's as if the lines on a condolence card were raised to a kind of folk...