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...Supreme Court ruling has had some immediate effect: those who were near their dates before the seven-month moratorium are now being quickly lined up for execution. Georgia put murderer William Earl Lynd to death on May 6. But this resolution of the lethal injection fight won't speed up the system in the long run. There will still be a deep well of public and legal opposition that will fund new challenges to capital punishment, just as there were decades of challenges and moratoriums long before questions arose about lethal injection...
...huge oil pipe spewing rubles might have been a more fitting emblem of Russia's resurgent strength than the arms of the moribund Russia Army. But even the rattling of a rusty saber served the political point of reminding NATO-friendly neighbors like Georgia and Ukraine, as well as other ex-Soviet Republics, who is still the big guy on the block. Still, with the price of bread and other foodstuffs skyrocketing, there was some grumbling about the circus. The popular Moscow daily Moskovski Komsomolets calculated that the cost of today's military parade could have bought the city...
PREPARING TO SPEND The Senator's team has gamed out a general election in which he rejects public funding and taps into more than $200 million in expected contributions to force the GOP to defend red states like Texas and Georgia...
...your story on Obama's mother made it appear more like a campaign p.r. piece than a legitimate news story. Something tells me I should not hold my breath waiting for soft-focus, warm-and-fuzzy stories about the mothers of Hillary Clinton and John McCain. Katherine Whan, Decatur, Georgia...
Universities walk a difficult line in trying to minimize textbook costs while still respecting intellectual property. Three academic publishing companies are currently suing Georgia State University for its approach to this problem, arguing that the University’s online course packs violate copyright laws. Georgia State’s program is cost-effective for students, but it does not account for the importance of intellectual property, and schools need to find a way to satisfy the needs of both parties. Universities should make an effort to shoulder the burden of copyright costs that hike up the price of textbooks...