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...Gerty, the state's portable electric chair, even though his lawyer argues that the accused is incapable of premeditating a murder. "No, gentlemen, this skull here holds no plans," the defense claims. "What you see here is a thing . . . to hold the handle of a plow, a thing to load your bales of cotton, a thing to dig your ditches, to chop your wood, to pull your corn." In effect, Jefferson is not condemned to die like a man but be destroyed like a beast. Worse still, he believes that he is no better than a dumb animal...
Communism deconstructed itself. Capitalism has done something of the same thing to its work force, even while sleekening itself in a Darwinian way. In any case, a new order has in a few short years dismantled the crucial load- bearing traditions of work in America and abrogated its operative myth. In a time of surreal transition, America is working essentially without a social contract, or with one that is daily, deeply violated...
...Tennenbaum, a division chief in the Los Angeles public defenders' office. "We're underappreciated and misunderstood." L.A. lawyer David Carleton had his teeth loosened by a client who didn't like his plea arrangement. Manhattan's Judith White needs all seven days of the week to handle her load of drug cases -- a task she continues to tackle even since a crack addict murdered her father four years ago. When Lynne Borsuk filed a motion with Georgia's Fulton County Superior Court seeking to reduce her load of 122 open cases, she was demoted to juvenile court. She was lucky...
...Dillon Professor of International Affairs Joseph S. Nye, the days have just gotten a little bit longer and the reading load a little bit heavier...
...though, she remains Liz Berkery, lacrosse star. She is expected to carry much of the Crimson's scoring load this season, and she will provide leadership to a team intent on reclaiming old glory...