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Clinton's success owes most to his least liberal moments. He pushed through a crime bill whose federal portion paid for 100,000 cops by cutting federal employees and gave death-row prisoners a shorter lease on life. By signing welfare reform, he managed to win over moderates with his tough-love approach while convincing liberals they should stick with him as the best hope for fixing what they most hated in the bill he had just signed. In 1992 it would have been a wild, drunken Republican dream that by 1996 a 60-year-old entitlement like...
...mystery, however, to the nation's small fraternity of capital-appeals lawyers. For more than a decade they have fretted as the Supreme Court, swamped with death-row appeals and prodded by an angry public, has drastically limited the authority of federal courts to review states' capital convictions--and practically eliminated it for appeals based on evidence uncovered after the original conviction. In 1993's Herrera v. Collins, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist argued that such cases have never merited federal relief unless "an independent constitutional violation" has occurred. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor added that the innocence standard must...
...that the piece "received negative criticism in its premier (1808), and to some extent to the present day." And understandably so, since it has a deadly combination of mediocre themes and an unncessary number of soloists; this means that each theme is heard at least three times in a row, from the cellist, the violinist, and the pianist, before it is allowed to die. The certainty of this repetition quickly becomes tedious, especially in the first and third movements. Indeed, the third movement, a jaunty Rondo alla polacca, repeatedly tests the listener's patience with cadences that sound like...
Late in the game, Providence mounted several attacks, but the Harvard defense held for its fourth shutout in a row and its eighth this season...
...taxes for six years in a row," Weld said in the final debate in Faneuil Hall. "I'm six-for-six, [Sen. Kerry] is zero-for-12," referring to Kerry's votes to raise taxes during his tenure in the Senate...