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...Hance execution comes in the midst of growing scrutiny of the death penalty. A month ago, Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun wrote an impassioned dissent in which he concluded that "the death-penalty experiment has failed." By contrast, Justice Antonin Scalia, a supporter of capital punishment who is fed up with last-minute appeals before the court, last week chastised a defense lawyer for waiting too long to seek a federal stay for a Texas execution. That outburst came during arguments for a case involving a federal court's right to intervene in a state execution. Tempers may grow even...
Derivatives have clearly heightened the anxiety in stock, bond and currency markets around the world in the weeks since the U.S. Federal Reserve began raising interest rates for the first time in five years. The Fed's move on Feb. 4 led the aggressive speculators who run high-rolling investment vehicles called hedge funds, which use derivatives in daily trading, to dump billions of dollars' worth of bond futures and thereby drive down the prices of the underlying bonds. The worst fallout occurred in Europe, where bond prices plunged and interest rates, which move in the opposite direction of prices...
What happens next depends partly on what small investors do, how many speculative bond and stock holdings financed by borrowed money still have to be unwound -- and also, of course, on what the Fed does. One guess is that Greenspan may push rates up another half to three-quarters of a point but let it go at that. If so, the economy may slow somewhat, particularly as higher interest rates translate into more expensive mortgage, car-purchase and credit-card loans. Tyson, however, thinks any such effect would only balance forces that may be working for a faster expansion, keeping...
Then Baird (Harvard's leading set-up man with 38 on the season) got goal of his own on an four-on-one break following a Harvard penalty kill. Farrell fed Baird, who easily beat a shaken Cavicchi, who was then replaced by Mike Heinke...
...some were describing the state of network news. TV reviewers were righteously appalled that ABC would dredge up the Manson horrors once again. Producers at all three networks were privately embarrassed at the confluence of crime stories. The warden at the Columbia Correctional Institution in Wisconsin was fed up; he banned future interviews for Dahmer, who has already talked to Inside Edition and ABC's Day One and had Sally Jessy Raphael next in line...