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...after a sluggish start, the Crimson rallied in time to defeat Princeton, 7-2, and capture its third straight Ivy League title. Harvard's victory over Princeton guarantees the Crimson a post-season trip to Athens, Ga., for the NCAA Tournament, which begins...
Nowhere is that point illustrated more starkly than in Columbus, Ga. Since Georgia adopted its current death-penalty law in 1973, four white men in the Columbus district attorney's office have decided which murders will be prosecuted as capital crimes. To date, 78% of their cases have involved white victims, although blacks are the victims in 65% of the community's homicides. Among the other factors that may create greater sympathy for a white victim or defendant: all four judges in the state superior court, which tries capital cases, are white, and often the juries are all white, although...
...when Senator Henry John Heinz III, 52, was killed in an airplane crash in Pennsylvania. A day later, Washington was once more stunned, when former four-term Texas Senator John Tower, 65, and his daughter Marian, 35, were among those who died in a commuter-plane crash near Brunswick, Ga...
...work here: some homeowners are unwilling to pay more to educate other people's kids; some parents, out of ignorance or indifference, tolerate mediocrity in their local schools. And some are simply unwilling to pour money down what seems to them to be a black hole. In Gwinnett County, Ga., voters were so disgusted at junketing county commissioners that they voted down a bond issue for schools. They feared that the money would be wasted -- and besides, many argued, having computers in the classrooms was a frivolous expense...
...right now is Gore. While the Gulf War will not decide the '92 election, it will be important. Since Gore voted to grant Bush war powers in January--a vote that has gained enough symbolic value to make a 1992 bid impossible for Mr. Sanctions, Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.)--he can neutralize charges that Democrats would have appeased Saddam Hussein...