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...only a fraction of the normal rate for similar legal work, the system tends not to select those lawyers with the necessary experience and qualifications to try a complex criminal case, but those who are willing to work cheap. A state that is willing to pay any price to recruit talented and knowledgeable prosecutors but refuses to commit resources towards the defense does not have a justice system worthy of the name. The bill would provide strong incentives to states to create and maintain a peer-reviewed list of qualified capital defense attorneys, who would be paid at reasonable rates...
...times have changed. In part it's simply a matter of the available labor pool. In these booming times, the Navy can't recruit enough men for its 315 ships. The other driving force has been the Navy's resolve to bleach the stain of the 1991 Tailhook Association convention, at which naval aviators sexually assaulted 83 women and then tried to cover it up. For years the Navy has been fighting the perception that women are not welcome in its ranks...
Narayan is one such recruit. The son of a farmer, he went off to college carrying his family's hopes that he would become a lawyer. For a while, Narayan tried to play the part--"I would wear ties, go out drinking with my friends and keep looking for fun"--but he soon fell into the company of some RSS members. "I began to understand the emptiness of my life," he says. "I decided to struggle for the preservation of our glorious culture, which is under threat...
Eventually, Bodega's forces try to recruit Chino. "It's about upward mobility," Bodega's right-hand man tells Chino. The temptation is hard to resist. "Why not us?" Chino asks himself. "If these dreams...take off, El Barrio would burn like a roman candle, bright and proud...
...district will actively recruit white students from other areas to help restore the school's racial balance...