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The fear of executing the wrong man (a more popular line of demurral these days) is an unreliable argument against all capital punishment. What if there are many witnesses to a murder? What if it's Hitler? Is capital punishment OK in cases of unmistakable guilt? George W. Bush says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why I Changed My Mind on the Death Penalty | 5/3/2000 | See Source »

Commanding leads and long periods of offensive momentum have been rare in recent weeks. The difference yesterday was in the level of execution. After a full week of practice, the Crimson looked more confident around Notre Dame's cage and more fluid in transition.

Author: By Peter D. Henninger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Notre Dame Edges M. Lax | 5/1/2000 | See Source »

If you're in a 401(k) plan, you already dollar-cost average. You may do it in some taxable mutual-fund accounts too. But Netstock lets you do it with as few or as many individual stocks as you want, and you choose them. The cost is a fraction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blue-Chip Kids | 5/1/2000 | See Source »

Sound like a grind? Listen to the peals of laughter bouncing off the classroom walls. Esquith's Shakespeare goes down like a strawberry milk shake, as textual analysis is interspersed with anecdotes ("Richard Burton once peed in his armor, and the tinkle made the other actors giggle!"). Students without speaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Teacher Works Six Days a Week | 4/24/2000 | See Source »

The Virgin Suicides is a movie based on the Jeffrey Eugenides' novel of the same name and told partially in flashback from the perspective of several neighborhood adolescents who recount the events surrounding the disturbing suicides of the five Lisbon sisters. These collective narrators bring us into the world of...

Author: By Dan Cantagallo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: CONTEMPLATING SUICIDE | 4/21/2000 | See Source »

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