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...change in rules isn't quite as groundbreaking as Beijing's spin suggests. Prior to 1983, all death sentences in China had been reviewed by the country's highest court. This requirement is clearly stipulated in both China's Criminal Law and its Criminal Procedure Law. In 1983 as part of a campaign to "strike hard" against crime, a different law - with lower authority in China's legislative hierarchy - was invoked to hand off the review of death penalty cases to provincial courts. The idea was that this would expedite death sentencing and curb crime. Legal scholars and death penalty...
...Some areas of the new site are way off-kilter. The local dining guide for Los Angeles called a cheap Vietnamese veggie joint in Reseda named Vinh Loi Tofu its highest rated restaurant, based upon a single review. Vinh Loi Tofu? In a major city that boasts Spago, Michaels, Koi, A.O.C., the Ivy, Crustacean and dozens of other amazing eateries? Narrowing my search to the TIME bureau's zip code of 90025, the Top 5 included a Starbucks located seven miles down the road. Some software obviously needs to be tweaked and some users' palates upgraded...
...shoulders. No era of jazz ever includes more than a few great vibraphonists, and now, with musicians like Steve Nelson doing their best playing as sidemen, and with greats like Bobby Hutcherson decades past their most important work, Harris has taken up the mantle of jazz’s highest-profile practitioner of the instrument and all of the expectation that comes with...
...take no satisfaction in having to deal with these complex situations. While we are committed to upholding the highest standards of honesty in the content of our newspaper, these were very difficult decisions for us to make...
...current Bush administration policies, and they are expected to express those views in record numbers on election day, according to a new national poll released by the Institute of Politics (IOP) yesterday in Washington, D.C. The IOP poll, which has a margin of error of +/-3 percent, predicted the highest voter turnout in twenty years for voters between the ages of 18 and 24. Thirty-two percent of the 18 to 24 year olds surveyed said that they will “definitely be voting.” If the IOP’s prediction proves true, young voters could...