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...very honored and happy at the prospect of spending more time here," Jolls said...
...capital case, the stakes are by definition as high as they can be. With this latest misstep, the doubts about the process are threatening to help reshape the whole death-penalty debate. The prospect of McVeigh's execution had already made every argument get up and dance. Just as capital punishment was losing support with each new innocent man freed by DNA evidence, along came the perfect villain: so clearly guilty, unrepentant and pitiless that at least 75% of Americans agreed with his sentence, including 22% who say they oppose the death penalty but would make an exception...
Having won admiring reviews for his first novel, The Intuitionist (1999), Colson Whitehead must now face the higher hurdle of a literary career: a second novel, which, unlike its predecessor, will confront enhanced expectations and thus the possibility of falling short. If this prospect ever intimidated Whitehead, no hint of nervousness appears in his rousing John Henry Days (Doubleday; 389 pages; $24.95). In fact, one of the novel's many characters muses on a hypothetical "second novel, recapitulating some of the first's themes, somehow lacking" because the similarly hypothetical author "tries to tackle too much." As it happens, there...
...reality, if I were to ask her how she is, she would probably say “fine” and walk out. Nevertheless, even the prospect of walking over to her shuts down my mind...
...Boycott Green Mountain Energy!" screams the aptly named website www.boycottgreenmountain.com. "The Mountain is a landfill!" Hard-core environmentalists, far from rejoicing at the prospect of a for-profit, self-sustaining clean-energy company, think of Green Mountain as something of a Trojan horse, and Kelly its Ulysses...