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...whether to continue with the current system, in which judges appointed defense lawyers, or to set up public defender's offices of their own. The bill would have also have created a county-by-county list of minimally qualified capital defense attorneys from which the judges could choose. (One index of the state of the Texas legal system is that another provision of the bill would have guaranteed suspects the right to meet with a lawyer within 20 days--almost three weeks--of their incarceration. In most areas of the U.S., the accused rarely spend 72 hours in jail before...
...Decline of the NASDAQ Composite Index at 1:18 p.m. on April...
...NASDAQ, now our most closely watched market gauge, was down 13.6% on extraordinary volume and with hours yet to trade. And that was on top of a chilling drop the day before, on top of a steady erosion over the previous few weeks that in all took the index down a stunning 28.9% from the March 10 high to the April 4 low--wiping out an incredible $1.1 trillion of value...
...trading, NASDAQ had clawed its way back a healthy 6 percent gain following its Friday plunge, while the Dow had soared by 217 points. Earlier, traders spooked by New York's frightful Friday fled Asian markets in droves, shaving 7 percent off Tokyo's Nikkei index and 8.6 percent off Hong Kong's Hang Seng. London's FTSE fell 4 percent to a six-month low in the first minutes of trading before leveling out, along with similarly hit European markets, into a holding pattern ahead of New York's opening. Despite Monday's good news, the market remains nervous...
...state must adopt a more fair and realistic approach to MCAS. Retaining the test as an index of school and individual performance rather than a graduation requirement would give schools a similar incentive to improve standards without unduly punishing the students. Alternatively, giving another type of diploma to students who receive a certain score on the test--a system similar to the Regents exams in New York--would help to indicate and reward achievement...