Word: hangings
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...passed a second law creating a well-funded office of expert appellate lawyers to represent death-row inmates, a move to overcome the tales of sleepy defense attorneys and inept lawyering. The two new laws are now being implemented, and their backers hope they will mitigate the state's hang-'em-high image. (Read about the decline in the number of death sentences in Texas...
...scrap metal. Second is that all those times I want to sit and chat with friends and can’t make it to the student center in the quad, Lamont, the Barker Center, Greenhouse, a dining hall, a common room, or the steps of Widener, I can just hang out in the Yard. The good news is I can now show my dad something tangible that Harvard is doing to improve its students’ lives. That’s better than the $75 UC fee I pay every year, an investment whose lofty returns include an email...
...noticed that a lot of the story takes place in Daedalus. Did you hang out there a lot as an undergrad...
...Australia's artistic mainstream himself, witnessing along the way an evolution in the country's attitude toward its minorities, particularly gays and Asians. He also notices more tolerance and diversity. "It's a slow process," he says. "There's always some resistance to change, but if the new attitudes hang around for long enough, then people start to accept them...
...Hyde Park--the tony South Side enclave that's home to the University of Chicago--but played a lot of basketball in one of the rougher neighborhoods nearby. Often the only white player on the court, he became adept at figuring out when to be aggressive and when to hang back. In the early 1960s, Duncan's mother started an after-school tutoring program in an inner-city neighborhood following her discovery that few of the 9-year-olds in her Bible-study class could read. "In Chicago at the time, you didn't see many white people around black...