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...prison for nearly half his life and who is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 12:01 a.m. Friday unless Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan commutes his sentence. Schlup, who was originally imprisoned for stealing a pickup truck in 1978, was convicted for assisting two other men to stab a fellow inmate to death in 1984. Since taking on the case in 1992, O'Brien, a former public defender who now runs the nonprofit Missouri Capital Punishment Resource Center, has collected piles of documents, affidavits that appear to prove that Schlup was not at the murder site -- and, in fact...
...week into his freshman year. Flunking out after two quarters with straight Fs, he made an improbable run for local office, attempted to go into business, and was arrested for false advertising. After serving a 40-day jail term, he returned to live with his parents and make another stab at college. It was then that he saw the aliens...
...this field is less a science than a fashion--its tenets fluctuate more capriciously than hemlines. If we are to trust these mealy-mouthed purveyors of truisms and (for the moment) take a stab at violent behavior by censoring television, it amounts to a running retreat on the real moral front...
...attackers are sometimes called free-lance terrorists, and some truly are. Examples are the Palestinians with no history of political activity or affiliation with any organization who randomly stab or ax Israelis on the streets, and some of the German rightists who assault and kill Turks and other foreigners. Their depredations are "unorganized, unstructured, spontaneous acts with a political motivation," says Ernst Uhrlau, director of the Hamburg branch of an agency equivalent to the FBI. Police can never predict where or whom they will strike because, says Uhrlau, the offenders themselves "don't know in the morning what they will...
...neat parable, but it never happened. The lurch to the left is like the "stab in the back" invented by right-wing Germans after World War I: an instant myth designed to discredit all one's political enemies in one fell swoop. Ask anyone who hangs out in left field -- columnists for the Nation, for instance, or resident thinkers at Washington's Institute for Policy Studies -- and they'll tell you there hasn't been any lurching in their direction. A few tentative little steps perhaps -- abolition of the "gag rule" on abortions, the signing of the "motor voter...