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...death penalty brings vengeance and solace to the families of victims. In fact, executions must be speeded up; death row is too long." This argument holds that a central reason for conducting an execution is the shock value, the satisfyingly swift and sure justice of the chair. Society must rid its vilest elements in good part as a catharsis for those that they most directly affect. Besides, the state could save money: the long death row process of appeals and incarceration adds to an already costly punishment...
Grimmelmann also says his condition has improved. He says that he got RSI at Microsoft and got rid of it at Microsoft the next summer. During his second summer there, he says he paid more attention to his working conditions...
Kataburuki says she drank gallons of water to get rid of the welts and became sick to her stomach...
...McGrath, MTV's 45-year-old president, who has been at the station since it was founded in 1981, promises even more music and less talk over the next year. "We were constantly showing Real World so you were always seeing Puck pick his nose," she says. "We got rid of that." Even at the expense of losing ratings points. "We're not playing to win the ratings game," says McGrath. "Our value is in the checking-outness," which is MTV speak for the channel's role as the pre-eminent cultural barometer. Some of her bravado may stem from...
...general, the ban on government-backed assassination is good policy. It is often ignorance and hubris that make a President fixate on getting rid of one irksome foreigner as a solution to deeply rooted problems. But a James Bond-style directive is not the only way a President can grant a license to kill. In 1986 Reagan bombed Libyan "terrorist-related targets" that happened to be places where Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was often present. During the Gulf War, coalition forces attacked Saddam's palaces and bunkers. Now the Pentagon is ready with a new list of his hangouts...