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...defense, most death-row inmates are poor people, disproportionately black or Latino, often retarded or abused as children, and are represented by court-appointed greenhorns and burnouts better suited to traffic court--or, in their appeal stage, by no one at all. And where the case against McVeigh seems gold-plated, other defendants are sentenced to death on the basis of flimsy evidence, jury whim, prosecutorial misconduct or the luck of the draw. Stephen Bright, director of the Southern Center for Human Rights, says that in three capital cases in Houston recently defense lawyers were observed to be sleeping during...
...substitute teaching for a while, worked in a Tucson feed store for another while, then gravitated back to quarter horses as a trainer. He found his calling, or so he thought, putting together a successful string at Los Alamitos in Orange County, Calif., and training the 1986 world champion, Gold Coast Express. But, as Baffert recalls, "one day I came home to our little house with a tiny backyard, and my wife started telling me about a feature she had just seen on TV about Wayne Lukas, who went from training quarter horses to Thoroughbreds and had this magnificent spread...
...French, for example, have siphoned the entire pension fund of state-owned France-Telecom into the national treasury in order to bring down the deficit. In Germany, Kohl has plunged into a furious fight with the stick-to-the-rules Bundesbank by moving to revalue the country's gold reserves closer to a "market" price to add $10 billion to the federal coffers. The Bundesbank warns that such a trick could undermine "the credibility and stability" of the euro...
...GOLD'S FOOLS...
Harvard has also recently added U.S. Olympic champion Kendall Cross to the coaching staff. The Atlanta gold medalist's presence in the locker room as an assistant coach says a lot about the integrity of the Crimson program...