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...comparison, lethal injection sounds more scientific--almost therapeutic--but its history is as improvised as that supermarket sponge. In 1977 an Oklahoma lawmaker sketched the protocol on a notepad with the help of a medical examiner. More research has gone into the proper way to brush your teeth. But the idea caught on, and now, years later, more than half the states have adopted some version of the Oklahoma cocktail. Judges in courts across the country are scratching their head over the odd concoction, and the Supreme Court has effectively halted all executions to untangle a mess of belated questions...
...independent candidacy. In the 2008 election cycle, the gathering is taking place on Jan. 7, when a group of mostly retired Democratic and Republican officials, all known for their centrist politics, their seriousness of purpose and their commitment to good government, will meet at the University of Oklahoma, where former Senator David Boren is president. He and another former Democratic Senator, Sam Nunn of Georgia, will be joined by 17 like-minded souls, including William Cohen, the former Republican Senator who served as Bill Clinton's Secretary of Defense, and Chuck Hagel, the maverick GOP Senator from Nebraska...
...ultimately prevail. Without revealing too much, let’s just say the movie hardly wanders from this format. The predictability of the plot isn’t the film’s only shortcoming. In one scene, the film more aggressively addresses the audience: at a debate in Oklahoma City, the reactions of the observers divide along color lines, in a way that should provide a funhouse mirror reflection of the movie-watching audience. If the film were shot more bravely, it would make us question our own situation piercingly, ontologically. It doesn’t; there...
...area around the suburbs to a dulling conformity of drive-ins and parking lots. This analysis is arguably simplistic, but the fact remains that Brouws’s photographs testify to the uniformity of the landscape marred by highways, rest areas, and suburbs. Whether in New York, Ohio, or Oklahoma, all McDonalds’ restaurants incontestably look the same. Jack Kerouac may have wanted to be “on the road,” but had he lived till the ’90s, he would have quickly come to the realization that it was the same road, wherever...
...piece of furniture nearly ruined the beginning of freshmen year for Peter M. Conti-Brown ’05. Conti-Brown, who had just arrived at Harvard from his home state, Oklahoma, could only afford to attend Harvard because of the generous financial aid package he had received from the College...