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...that he could have an additional 5 to 10 years of appeals left and that his mental instability might win him commutation to life without parole. But for Ross, who wept at how few responses his more than 200 goodbye letters to pen pals and supporters elicited, the prospect of yet another penalty hearing, with its gory photos, censorious prosecutors and vengeful family members, seems a punishment worse than death. "Do you have any idea what it is like to [be] constantly judged by your absolute worst deed?" he wrote in a 1998 letter to a journalist...
...wrote Humorist Art Buchwald 19 years ago, during the last big wave of corporate mergers. These days the prospect that he wryly foresaw seems considerably less farfetched. In recent months such household names as ABC, TWA and Nabisco have agreed to sell out to other firms and cease to be independent enterprises. They will follow Bendix, Gulf Oil, Conoco and other giants that have already surrendered their separate identities. Since 1980, no fewer than 62 members of the FORTUNE 500 list of industrial behemoths have been swallowed by other companies...
...number of Narayan's characters set out in the morning literally not knowing how or whether they will eat that night. In Four Rupees, a man is offered the job of recovering a treasured brass pot that has fallen down a well. He is horrified at the prospect of shinnying down 60 ft. into the unknown. Nevertheless, he succeeds. When he proudly brings his wages home, his wife looks at his disheveled state and decides he has robbed someone for the money. A similar outcome awaits the hero of A Horse and Two Goats. An old man, who daily pastures...
...Yanks were ready to tango again, in most entertaining fashion, in '05. Has baseball ever had consecutive seasons of extended theater as these two have provided since April of 2003? I can't imagine it has. And if we've got six more months of that in prospect, well, God bless...
...prospect of living next door to construction—which is scheduled to begin in August and last through the summer of 2007—has sparked an outcry on House open lists...