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...LAST TIME A PRISONER DIED IN SAN QUENTIN'S gas chamber, Ronald Reagan was Governor of California. But Governor Pete Wilson's rejection of an appeal for clemency by Robert Alton Harris may end the long hiatus. Harris, 39, was convicted in 1979 of shooting two San Diego teenagers to death. Prosecutors told the jury that Harris taunted the victims before they died, laughed at them after he pulled the trigger, then calmly ate the hamburgers they had bought for lunch. Said Wilson: "The decision of the jury was correct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California Revives The Death Penalty | 4/27/1992 | See Source »

Weiland, in fact, convinced Smith to start coaching. After graduation from Harvard, Smith served as an assistant at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst for a year, and then, after a brief hiatus from athletics, returned to coaching at his hometown high school in Gloucester...

Author: By Ishani Maitra, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: NU's Ben Smith Back Home | 2/3/1992 | See Source »

While the Harvard men's basketball team enjoys a 16-day hiatus, now would be a good time to examine what exactly has changed from last season's 9-17 record to this campaign's 1-11 standing...

Author: By R.j. Peters, | Title: Life After Roby Not So Rosy | 1/24/1992 | See Source »

While it was enjoying its examperiod hiatus, the Crimson (8-3-3 overall, 8-1-3 ECAC) moved up two slots to the number-10 position...

Author: By Dan Jacobowitz, | Title: Icemen Ranked Tenth in Nation | 1/22/1992 | See Source »

Pawar's unexpected capitulation forestalled a looming power struggle, but the Congress Party's problems are far from over. Incomplete returns from the interrupted parliamentary election indicate that while the party will return to power after a 19-month hiatus, its hold on the lower house's 545 seats will fall short of a majority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Filling a Power Vacuum | 7/1/1991 | See Source »

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