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...know all the questions--the deterrence arguments, the racial bias arguments, the law-and-order arguments, the what-if-we-make-a-mistake arguments, the cruel-and-unusual arguments, the don't-kill-to-show-killing-is-wrong arguments--but I don't have any answers. Maybe the emotional shock of witnessing an execution would convince me that capital punishment is wrong. Maybe the emotional anesthesia of witnessing 12 executions would do just the opposite...
Later Sonia Gandhi, 44, and her 19-year-old daughter Priyanka quietly escaped from the residence and flew to Madras on an Indian air force plane to claim Rajiv's body. The rest of India was in shock. By government order, shops and offices remained closed, and security forces patrolled the capital. A crucial decision came when elections commissioner T.N. Seshan put off the second and third main rounds of voting for a month. Election-related mayhem had taken 229 lives across the country even before Gandhi's assassination; in its wake, 26 more people died. A week of national...
...Bush briefly considered transferring his powers to the Vice President under the 25th Amendment so that doctors could put him under general anesthesia and administer an electric shock to stabilize his heartbeat. The treatment proved unnecessary, and tests later showed that Bush's condition was caused by Graves' disease, a noncontagious thyroid ailment that, coincidentally, also afflicts First Lady Barbara Bush. The condition is usually manageable with drugs and low doses of radiation. Bush returned to the White House early last week and resumed work, albeit at a slightly less frantic pace...
Sometimes, of course, the nonentity is summoned up from the servants' quarters and invested with the master's power. When a President dies in office, there is the initial shock of the news and then, a moment later, a sort of secondary explosion. The hand slaps the forehead in a star burst of realization: "My God! You know what this means...
Haynes dines on controversy. His previous picture was the rough, wickedly funny Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, a sort of Valley of the Dolls (but with real dolls) that was suppressed by the Carpenter family. Poison is a more somber affair. The shock comes not from any graphic sex, for there is none, but from the pristine virtuosity of Haynes' craft. In three interlocking stories inspired by Jean Genet, this homoerotic Intolerance details the . toxicity of prejudice, fear and disease, as played out in a tumid hothouse of forbidden sexual longing. A scientist who turns leprous when he drinks...