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...Obama has written that he supports the death penalty for some crimes that are "so heinous" and "so beyond the pale." But in Illinois he worked to put in place more safeguards to prevent wrongful convictions, including a law that required police to tape interrogations and confessions. The Obama campaign did not offer any immediate comment on Brown's ad. (Update: The Obama campaign later responded to the ad, saying "Floyd Brown and the garbage he puts on TV represent everything the American people hate about politics..." Read the full Obama statement here.) John McCain supports continued...
...fragrant air, astonishingly heavy and moist for the summer. She heard, as if from a piano, note by melodious note, the birds that nested in the lone apple tree that leaned over the shed; saw as if through a magnifying glass the leaves of grass which were still the pale green of newborn shoots. She inhaled quickly and deeply as she noticed a gardener sleeping beneath a distant tree.“Perhaps I shall kill him as well,” she thought, “if I am not too tired out after disemboweling Frederick with a gardening...
...alone, that the Constitution forbids only those execution methods that are expressly intended to inflict severe pain. For example: "'gibbeting,' or hanging the condemned in an iron cage so that his body would decompose in public view, and 'public dissection'...[and] embowelling alive, beheading, and quartering." Also beyond the pale, he noted, would be burning prisoners alive...
...drink at Oskar Blues, a brewery--restaurant-country bar that is one of the few craft breweries that can their beer, claiming it stays fresher than it does in a bottle because light never gets in (a New York Times panel of critics named Oskar Blues' Dale's Pale Ale its favorite American pale ale). Oskar's sells a beer-flavored lip balm and some very intense beers. That means they're high alcohol (up to 10.5%, compared with 5% for a Coors) and have wads of hops--the green, pinecone-looking plant that gives beer its floral aroma...
...seniors in the dark about whether they want their diploma framed or a yearbook. It seems once again the message being sent is that this graduation is the one that ‘matters.’ Both high school and law school’s final day will pale in comparison to our moment in Tercentenary Theatre, so now is the time to celebrate, commemorate and gather mementos no matter the price. But the hundreds (if not thousands) of additional dollars involved in all this are not necessary in order for seniors to bring their time at Harvard...