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...last Wednesday, he was strapped to a gurney in Huntsville state prison, his arms pierced by needles attached to intravenous tubes that would carry a lethal dose of metabolic poison moments later. Jacobs, 44, devoted most of his last earthly words to protesting the injustice of his death. "There is not going to be an execution," he said, his voice wavering and his eyes filled with tears. "This is premeditated murder by the appointed district attorney and the State of Texas. I am not guilty of this crime...
About 2,000 U.S. veterans of the Persian Gulf War have filed a $1 billion civil suit against 20 prominent German companies, alleging that the firms helped Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein build a poison-gas arsenal. The German magazine Stern reports the action in a story to be published Thursday. The suit, Stern says, seeks $1 billion in damages for exposure to chemical weapons they believe left them with "Gulf War Syndrome," a mysterious collection of symptoms that includes chronic fatigue, headaches, rashes and painful limbs. Some of the German companies today called the suit groundless; no German firm...
...read like an Internet nightmare come true, a poison arrow designed to strike fear in the heart of all the corporate information managers who had hooked their companies up to the information superhighway only to discover that they may have opened the gate to trespassers. Is the I.L.F. for real? Is there really a terrorist group intent on bringing the world's largest computer network to its knees...
...America's chattering classes have been beguiled by the idea of compensatory unfairness. They have not recognized it for what it is: a flirtation with the devil, a deepening reliance on the principle that formed the foundation of slavery, the Ku Klux Klan and Jim Crow. This was the poison at the center of apartheid and Hitler's Nuremberg Laws...
...disseminating racist theories of her own--however ambiguously--Clarke has done nothing to refute what she abhors and has done much to poison the atmosphere further...