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...Taking the puck from the blueline, Brown played Catlin to pass and let her skate unobstructed towards the goal. She took advantage of Brown's lax coverage, flipping the puck into the opposite corner of the net for the lead...
...could the Florida Supreme Court do, when confronting a similar threat, except to tell the vote counters to keep on counting, and to count until they had found sufficient votes to cause Barbra and the rest to unpack their bags and redirect their drivers from the international terminal at LAX to Bel-Air for lunch...
Worst of all, the Texas courts have been unspeakably lax in remedying such ills. Before Bush took office, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals had reversed 33 percent of capital sentences. Since then the rate of reversal has fallen to three percent of capital cases, while courts nationwide reverse 66 percent of capital cases. Either the trials in Texas have suddenly become miraculously free of error, or the Texas courts have been lax in their duties. In 79 of 103 appeals cases surveyed by the Texas Defender Service, the judge never held the normal hearing but instead relied on filed...
...Last week, I thought I had left Hollywood when I boarded a plane at LAX and landed in Amarillo, Texas. Since my upcoming rollicking profile of Charlize Theron (Hollywood is also where you're allowed to shamelessly plug) wasn't due until this week, I had taken a brief hiatus from my showbiz beat to chronicle the latest troubling chapter in America's drug war. In the summer of 1999, 43 residents of Tulia, Texas - a dry little town of less than 5,000 people in the windswept panhandle - were arrested for dealing cocaine. It was the most ambitious drug...
...chagrin of its outstanding fire department, the Big Apple's police are the ones known as New York's Finest. That accolade undergoes some expert scrutiny in this lively anecdotal history of the force, which began as a loosely organized, ethically lax group of constables. Some things don't change. As the authors note, "The great corruption scandals have come along every 20 years or so, with almost astronomical regularity...