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This is not an exam question in a college philosophy course but a moral conundrum at the core of perhaps the most intriguing case facing the U.S. Supreme Court, Payne v. Tennessee. Justice David Souter, the court's swing vote, asked during oral argument last month whether "it really is legitimate to value victims differently depending upon the circumstances of the lives that they have chosen to lead." Tennessee Attorney General Charles Burson's response was unequivocal: "There can be no doubt that the taking of the life of the President creates much more societal harm than the taking...
...heard rumors that he was a child killer. Anthony Sarivola, a fellow inmate with a reputation for mob connections, offered to protect Fulminante but demanded to know the full details of the crime. At that, Fulminante admitted he had driven the girl into the desert, forced her to perform oral sex and made her beg for her life until he shot her twice in the head...
...toward Iraq for better ties with the West and the gulf countries. Iran may still use the planes -- and their pilots, who remain in detention -- as leverage in any future bargaining with Iraq over a final settlement of the Iran-Iraq war, for which there is now only an oral peace pact. If that fails and the planes eventually decompose into pricey rust heaps, at least Iran will have the satisfaction of knowing that Saddam was denied their...
...oral postscript to his article, [Anderson] wondered whether the department--which, he said, Mr. Fish had built artificially by recruiting recognized, high-priced scholars--could sustain itself. "The direction of the department was Mr. Fish's direction," he said. "It's basically a department of hired guns." The recent announcement that the scholar Henry Louis Gates would leave the department for a better offer, he suggested, may be a sign of things to come...
After returning to Moscow on the evening of Oct. 6, I informed President Gorbachev in detail about the meetings in Baghdad. Once he heard my oral report, he told us to draw up proposals, hoping to continue the peace mission. I submitted my ideas...