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...with a June 19 appointment in the death chamber. That would be, by the way, the same Juan Garza who was to be executed in December - except that with five days to spare, President Bill Clinton postponed the event for six months so the Justice Department could further study racial and geographic disparities in the federal death penalty system. Last September, preliminary analysis showed that between 1995 and 2000, 70 percent of federal death penalty defendants were Latino or black. The study also found that a handful of the 94 U.S. Attorneys' offices accounted for 43 percent of the cases...
...Imagine if the target of "A Grader's Reply" hadn't been the women of the College but rather some ethnic or religious group--the article would have never made it out of the archives! Instead, it appears to be The Crimson's opinion that while racial and religious discrimination is wholly impermissible, it's perfectly all right to discriminate against women-after all, they're just 'Cliffies...
Even if the FBI's conduct proves to have been more careless than venal, the charges call attention to more serious problems that have led to 95 exonerations in capital cases since 1973, problems such as corrupt prosecutors, lying jailhouse snitches, incompetent forensic experts, junk science and racial prejudice. Will people be prepared to support the next execution if they have even the faintest doubts about the last...
...months JESSICA ALBA--who plays the omni-racial, genetically perfect and tantalizingly saucy character Max Guevara on James Cameron's sci-fi dweeb spectacular Dark Angel--has danced a softshoe around rumors that she and co-star MICHAEL WEATHERLY were dating. She even resorted to the "just good friends" line. This week her publicist confirmed what those in nerddom feared all along: not only are the couple involved, they're engaged. Alba is 20. Weatherly is 32. It seems superfluous to mention that this is Alba's first marriage, but hey, it is. Weatherly, who plays wheelchair-bound cyberjournalist Logan...
Ellroy likes to shock. If you like him that way, fine. If not, he couldn't care less. His new novel, The Cold Six Thousand, uses one of America's most toxic racial epithets right up front. "There's a reason I used that word in the first sentence. I'm warning people: You want a nice book about the '60s, stop right here. You want to know what really happened--read...