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Council co-chair and Indiana University Law Professor Joseph L. Hoffman noted that the formation of the council is a revolutionary endeavor in the area of capital punishment, as it will build a statute from the ground up. Its results, he said, could provide a model for the entire nation...
FIRED. ISIAH THOMAS, 42, coach of the Indiana Pacers basketball team, by newly hired president Larry Bird. The onetime Pistons star led the Pacers to the play-offs in the three years he coached the team. Observers say the fact that the Pacers never made it past the first round and a long-running rivalry with Celtics legend Bird were the probable reasons behind Thomas' dismissal. Bird's former assistant Rick Carlisle is the leading candidate to take over...
...pictures in our story on Howard Dean, the shot of the candidate in his disordered Vermont kitchen got the most comments. "How could a man who lives in such an appalling mess be expected to organize our country's business?" asked an Indiana woman. More approving was a woman from New York State: "I made my campaign contribution to Dean for a lot of reasons, but I knew my choice was right when I saw the photo of his kitchen. Those counters are as cluttered as mine...
...your own house." The centrist Democratic Leadership Council (D.L.C.), which helped nurture Bill Clinton's political career, warned last week that the "far left" was taking over the party and pulling it over a cliff. No one had to ask whom the D.L.C.'s chairman, Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana, was referring to when he posited, "Do we want to vent, or do we want to govern?" Although Dean's record as Vermont Governor defies ideological labels (see following story), it's not that record that matters now, the D.L.C. argues; it's his opposition to the war, his proposal...
DIED. VANCE HARTKE, 84, three-term Democratic Senator from Indiana; of a heart attack; in Falls Church, Va. A populist and passionate liberal, Hartke was known in the Senate for his early opposition to the war in Vietnam. In 1966, more than two years before America's deep divisions over the war would become dramatically clear at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, he was one of six Senators to draft a letter to President Johnson, his onetime mentor in the Senate, seeking a suspension of bombing in North Vietnam...