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...death penalty's continued existence, countering the trend of the rest of the developed world, expresses our revulsion to violent crime and our belief in personal accountability. The endless and expensive appeals reflect our scrupulous belief in consistency and individual justice. This is also a nation of widely dispersed power--many states, cities and jurisdictions. Out of this diversity has emerged the staggering intricacy of death-penalty law, as thousands of judges and legislators from coast to coast struggle to breathe real-life meaning into such abstract issues as what constitutes effective counsel, what is the proper balance of authority...
Wu’s friends said that the incident did not reflect Wu’s normal behavior, and several said that Wu was intoxicated at the time...
...some of their fellow Americans. That's not necessarily two Americas. It's that I do think there are people who just are not fully aware of how some of their fellow Americans are struggling. That's what I sense. If our party does not begin to understand and reflect the concerns of those fellow Americans in this one America, I think we are really hurting ourselves in the long term...
...basis of the AFP's concerns, according to Terry Hicks, are just his son's "storytelling," and do not reflect the real David. "Nothing has been proven for what he's supposed to have done," Terry said on Saturday. Though Terry had once hinted that his son might make an apology to Australia, he now says David feels no need to do so: "He's done his time, and it's time for him to settle down...
...highly risky business. The film may be manipulative in its construction, and cliché-ridden in some of the incidents it recounts, but it has a good, large heart. You could do worse, this holiday season, than to take your children to see this movie and encourage them to reflect on where we have quite recently and shamefully been in this country - when it comes to matters of race - and, perhaps, on how far we have...