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...Even more significantly, where states once hurried to adopt death penalty laws, the pendulum now appears to be swinging in the other direction. In 2007 New Jersey became the first state in 40 years to abolish its death penalty. In that same year repeal bills were narrowly defeated in Montana, Nebraska and New Mexico, all of which are revisiting the issue this year. Now the focus is on Maryland. After years of failed attempts by death penalty opponents to bring a repeal bill to a vote in the state legislature, Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley is personally sponsoring this year...
...think we're on the cusp of a revolution in how we eat? My gut tells me we're in the best place we've been in my lifetime. For the first time, the pendulum has been moving the other way. I have watched the world of restaurants and cooking and chefs for 30 years now. And at the beginning, I was a decent journalist and I could write, but basically [editors ] wanted me to interview chefs and write about food as art and all this other crap. I've seen the move to simplicity. I'll be disappointed...
...actively disliked each other; while Guccione promoted the rumor that Hef was a "closet queen," the Playboy publisher, noting Guccione's cultivation of a similarly decadent lifestyle, remarked that "If I were he, I'd want to be me, too.") Larry Flynt's Hustler, founded in 1974, swung the pendulum even farther, gleefully relinquishing any claims to good taste...
...Riding the Pendulum I generally agree with Joe Klein that Obama's win presents a significant swing to the left, and from the bottom up [Nov. 17]. But I do not think the country is ready for an activist government with a much more liberal agenda than we have seen in recent decades. This election result was largely a reaction to an ineffective conservative Administration. Obama and a Democrat-dominated Congress will be wise to maintain some moderation in their policies, or they could provoke a shift back to the right. Mike Hall, Boise, Idaho...
While acknowledging that the Internet and chain stores are stiff competition, Mayersohn said that the book store provides an “enormous amount of customer service” and that while independent stores have suffered from competition in recent years, “the pendulum is swinging back...