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...penalty cases. And pursue them he does. Carnes wrote Alabama's death-penalty law, which allows judges to impose the death penalty on convicted killers even when juries have opted for life in prison. He led a national effort by state attorneys general to curb the opportunities for death-row prisoners to appeal their cases before federal judges. People who don't much care for him -- they include many civil rights leaders and death-penalty opponents -- call him Dr. Death...
...irony of Carnes' situation is that if he is confirmed -- both sides were counting votes last week -- he won't get much chance to use his death-penalty expertise on the bench. Recently the Supreme Court significantly restricted the rights of death-row inmates to appeal their sentences before federal judges -- just as Carnes the prosecutor had wanted...
...lullaby. For some, Ronald Reagan, who could say mean things without sounding mean -- sometimes without sounding as if he meant them or knew what they meant -- was the proof of Vidal's theory. Bob Roberts is the next step. He sings jolly hate songs as his parents sang Michael, Row the Boat Ashore (a tune that Robbins' father Gil made famous as a member of the '60s folk group the Highwaymen). Bob Roberts is an anti-Bob Dylan; the anthem of this rebel conservative is Times Are Changin' Back...
...have, four years in a row. You mean, over one year...
...afternoon, shortly after 1 p.m.,Soren sits in the seats of the Astrodome'sdesignated Radio TV area, high above theconvention floor. Powerful electric fans blow coolair into the shadowy seating section. Cheers fromthe floor session--eerily distant--waft past thesilvery rafters. A few feet ahead, bright lightsfocus on a row of stand-up spaces, where cameracrews from MTV, FNN, Comedy Central and othernetworks prepare to film their reporters...