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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...punish three-time felons with life sentences and add many crimes to the growing list of death-penalty offenses. The price tag for carrying out the law's mandates: $32.4 billion. What's missing from the grab bag is the controversial Racial Justice Act, which would have allowed death-row inmates to appeal their sentences if, using racial statistics, they could indicate bias. That battle was fought, and lost, by the Congressional Black Caucus. The crime bill's biggest winner would be President Clinton, who spent a year lobbying...
...Hills brothers who murdered their parents. To ensure that Simpson and Menendez would not overhear each other's telephone conversations, Block ordered Menendez moved to another part of 7000. (Brother Lyle is in a different, equally high-security block of the jail.) That left Simpson alone in an isolated row, or module, of seven cells...
...telegenic. Every successful American team sport is now made-for-TV (plenty of close-ups, replays and time-outs). Soccer isn't. The last-row aerial shots of the huge field make the action look like an infested picnic viewed from a helicopter...
...FILM STUDIO IN ATLANTA, AMY Ray and Emily Saliers, who make up the folk- rock duo Indigo Girls, stand before a row of skeletons illuminated by flashes of light. The two are shooting a video of their new song Least Complicated; in another scene Saliers lies on her back wearing a white wedding dress and clutching a bouquet of red flowers. What does it all mean? Saliers, who wrote the song, offers a profound interpretation. "It's about repeating patterns in life," she says, "if you wanted to get the basic philosophic message. The video is an illustration of that...
...finger at Ticketmaster's relatively modest service fees, it is these behind-the-scenes brokers who are responsible for the hundreds of dollars added to the price of some tickets. Though these scalpers handle less than 20% of the tickets, they are often the best tickets: the first 10 rows at an Elton John concert or the N.B.A. finals. They are the reason that even the fans who sleep outside the box office to be first in line find that they cannot buy a front-row seat. It is scalpers who bid up the price of a Rolling Stones ticket...