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...sentence of death and a killer ready to die would seem a perfect partnership. With condemned inmates around the country spending an average of 10 years wading through appeals, both the state and the convict can get impatient. Since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, almost 12% of all U.S. executions have been of so-called volunteers, murderers who plead guilty and ask for death or, more commonly, waive their appeals. As death houses around the country begin to crowd with volunteers, however, their presence raises questions about whether a justice system can be fair when...
...other sections. There are no chairlifts or souvenir stalls here, just heated suites made from local stone and beams salvaged from some of Beijing's demolished courtyard homes. Rooms are decorated with Manchurian, Mongolian and Tibetan antiques, and each has a private porch. The Tiger Bar provides the perfect setting for cigars and cognac, while the restaurant offers cuisine inspired by Genghis Khan, whom the menu quotes: "The greatest pleasure in life is to defeat your enemy, then ride his horses, drink his wine, eat his food, and sleep with his women." Beijing's new business warriors may be inclined...
Angers embodies everything the world loves about France. Water gushes from stone cherubs on its Beaux Arts fountains as mothers sit in the sun, watching their small children spin gleefully on a painted carousel, to the sounds of My Boy Lollipop. Picture-perfect vineyards announce the town's current prosperity; a Gothic cathedral and 13th century chateau commemorate its noble past. Just 265 km from Paris, the gateway to the bucolic Loire Valley, Angers offers four museums, a feast of theater and music, and canoeing on nearby Maine Lake. "This isn't the overcrowded Paris suburbs," sniffs Angers' deputy prosecutor...
...back to 1704 (yours for a mere $3,227). More reasonable was a $36 bottle of 1989 Breuer Riesling from the Bischofberg vineyard. As I swirled my glass and dipped crusts of dense rye bread into my Riesling-and-cheese soup, an oompah band pounded in the distance--a perfect German winery experience...
...have a candidate in mind that I would love to see, and that's Sandra Day O'Connor. I think she would be the perfect choice, a very healing choice for the country. I think those others would be very polarizing and not good for the country...