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This is the first time in four years that the Radcliffe junior varsity boat has been able to out-row arch-rival Yale, and it did so with class on Saturday. Radcliffe crossed the line in 7:17.8, defeating Yale by an enormous margin of 28 seconds...
...when Warren McCleskey, a black death-row inmate in Georgia, petitioned the Supreme Court in 1987, arguing that his capital sentence should be overturned because the race of his white victim played a significant role in his sentencing, his claim was rejected. Presented with data demonstrating that murderers of whites are four times as likely to receive the death penalty as murderers of blacks, the court allowed that the link between a victim's race and the imposition of the death penalty was "statistically significant in the system as a whole." But, the court concluded, no petitioner could rely exclusively...
...heinousness of the crime. More pertinent factors commonly involve the race of the victim and the competence of the defendant's counsel. Many legal experts believe the race of the defendant also plays a role -- 12% of the U.S. population is black, though blacks constitute 50% of death-row inmates -- but the evidence is equivocal. "The trouble with the death penalty is that it's like a lottery," says law professor Steven Goldstein of Florida State University. "There are so many discretionary stages: whether the prosecutor decides to seek the death penalty, whether the jury recommends it, whether a judge...
...easy to get down when you play four games in a row and things aren't going your way," Mitchell said. "But it gives hitters a chance to see a lot of pitches, and they have the opportunity to really get their timing down...
...Foreman lost to Ali in Zaire. Then he lost to Jimmy Young, who wasn't a joke but wasn't Godzilla either. Foreman quit fighting for 10 years and took up preaching. And eating. But then four years ago, he started fighting again. He beat 24 stiffs in a row, 23 by knockouts...