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...that it would have mattered. Oklahoma is one of 13 states that do not prohibit executions of the mentally deficient. Still, Presson argued in last-minute appeals that prosecutors knowingly misled the clemency board when they claimed Allen was a high school graduate and briefly attended college. Prosecutors, who insist that Allen was competent and functional, said Allen herself made those claims at her murder trial. And indeed she did, inexplicably and irrationally damaging her own cause...
Even so, experts insist communication is vital, and say people can't always make proper use of their rights unless employers know how best to accommodate them. Says attorney Susan Slavin of Jericho, N.Y., who represents chronically ill individuals: "Once you open that dialogue, you're protected. You can't advocate for yourself if someone doesn't know your condition...
Senior Army officials seriously considered killing the program last summer. But they insist that however unlikely the prospect of a major armored war, they wouldn't want to fight one with outmoded howitzers. So they've put the Crusader on a diet and cut the original buy of 1,138 systems down to 480, for $11 billion. Army generals boast they have turned the program around "nearly on a dime" and that the gun will be ideal for everything "from small-scale contingencies to full combat." But it will still require huge cargo planes to get to war quickly. They...
Today manufacturers insist all phones that meet radiation standards are equally safe and that it is pointless to use SAR ratings as a marketing tool. "We constantly strive for designs of antennas and phones that maximize the efficiency of the phones," says Motorola's Sandler. "But there shouldn't be any health implication inferred from any of this...
...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.’s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up we decide C- (Harvard being Harvard, we do not give D’s. Consider C- a failure). Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn’t thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. “Locke is a transitional figure...