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...voters' perceptions. After presiding over 131 executions--about one-fifth of all the executions since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976--Bush for the first time issued a 30-day stay of execution. The lucky man: Ricky Nolen McGinn, who had been sentenced to die for the 1993 rape and murder of his 12-year-old stepdaughter. Some may see Bush's move as the best evidence that he too will do whatever it takes to get elected, others as a sign the Texas Governor puts the compassionate into "compassionate conservatism...
...tests for McGinn--removing one of the last roadblocks to his execution the next day. As they rolled along under the hot Southwest sun, Bush called his legal counsel, Margaret Wilson, to review the matter. He peppered her with questions: Was DNA relevant? Could it prove whether McGinn had raped his stepdaughter? It would be conclusive, said Wilson. That was important: if McGinn was guilty of only murder but not rape, then under Texas law he would not necessarily have committed a capital crime. Bush went through with his military speech and then called Wilson back. He would probably recommend...
...They are not admitting that there is a problem with gender at Harvard--with date rape, final clubs, with anything," says an alumnae leader. "The problem is the dean, and if his office controls it, the Trust will not serve the same purpose I want my money to serve. They are using the name to suggest that it is a Radcliffe thing...
...Lewis doesn't care about these things]. I feel like it is very much the opposite. The Trust will be funding groups concerned with sexual harassment and sexual violence," Avery says. "I also worry when people think about women at Harvard that the first thing they jump to is rape or sexual violence. I don't think that is the only touch point for women at Harvard...
...Former Kirkland House resident Joshua M. Elster, Class of 2000, is charged with rape and indecent assault and battery by an undergraduate woman. The arrest is initially omitted by the Harvard Police Department from its blotter, a violation of Bay State law. Elster later pleads guilty to all six felony counts and is dismissed by the Faculty in an April 1999 vote...