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...Commonwealth of Virginia did. It decided on Joseph Patrick Payne, a soft-spoken, 40-year-old eighth-grade dropout who is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Nov. 7. Yet Payne, while hardly a model citizen, may be innocent of this murder: his attorney has a stack of affidavits maintaining that the crime was committed by the man who became the state's star witness against Payne, as well as a signed document in which that witness confesses to framing him. Why, then, is Joe Payne still facing execution? "That's got me baffled," he admits...
Despite three decades in the House, the race gets harder for this soft-spoken moderate. Hamilton's opponent, Jean Leising, is the same Republican who almost beat him in 1994. But he has held off the conservative surge by supporting a flat or consumption tax, balanced trade, less government regulation and campaign-finance reform...
...foot Browning has fit in with the team well, earning the nickname "Sweet Pea" for her soft-spoken and considerate manner despite her aggressive, vocal soccer persona on the field...
...Dayton peace accords, Bosnians are to go to the polls in national elections. But many cannot even vote in their hometowns, including Esad, who asked that his real name not be used. "There's no way I'll go to vote in Doboj," says the gaunt, soft-spoken former factory worker, sitting in the tiny room he shares with his wife and two daughters in Muslim-held territory south of the city, "I'm still too shocked from the beating I got the last time I tried to cross." Wherever they vote, Bosnians are expected to vote along rigidly ethnic...
Those immune to the appeal of birding may wonder why the tall, soft-spoken artist was so widely renowned, and is so deeply mourned. What does counting chickadees have to do with anything really important? Peterson, of course, answered that question countless times during the past 62 years. Birds are not only beautiful and fascinating but also early indicators of what is right or going wrong on this planet (think of the canary in the mine shaft). Peterson opened up the natural world to millions of people who might otherwise have gone through life seeing only fluttering shapes and colors...