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...personalize the issue. Ted Kennedy's dream may have died, but it lives on in the nightmares of thousands of conservative donors. Liberal causes have lost Ed Meese and Robert Bork, but are trying (a bit desperately) to make do with David Duke, the former Klansman in the Louisiana state legislature...
...past 13 years, 121 executions have been carried out in the U.S., most of them in Texas, Florida, Louisiana and Georgia. The prospect that the Southern "death belt" will be joined by California has opponents of capital punishment worried. "California is the key state in the death-penalty debate," says American University law professor Ira Robbins. "If a fairly moderate-to-liberal state can execute someone, then states such as Ohio and Pennsylvania might be next...
...Alaska was just the beginning. Next there was a refinery explosion in Louisiana. Then a 567,000 gallon spill off New York City, and most recently another spill in the same area. Isn't there a pattern here...
...think, in the end, the Alaska spill was caused by compounded human failure. In Louisiana that was legitimately an act of God. We still don't know why that pipeline broke, and it doesn't look like corrosion. But the refinery was halfway back up in 15 days, and is now fully operational. Incidentally, there were a lot of heroes in that accident. It was a good safety response. As for Arthur Kill ((the big New York spill)), that was an act of God ripping that pipeline, but the way it was handled afterward was human error...
...trail of bogus checks led across three Southern states, from a few that were passed in Louisiana, to a flood of nearly 100 that turned up in Tuscaloosa, Ala. They totaled in the tens of thousands of dollars, and all were tracked down to one place: a private home in Vicksburg, Miss. There, police discovered a trove of high-tech gear that included a document scanner, a laser printer, an IBM-compatible computer and a disk filled with digitized checks, drivers' licenses and department store IDs. "The guy could copy anything he wanted," says Detective Reggie McCann of the Jackson...