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...nationwide system of capital punishment that is fraught with error. In the nearly 23 years since the death penalty was reinstated in Illinois, for instance, 12 people have been executed, while no less than 13 death row inmates have been cleared of their capital-murder charges. This prompted the state??s conservative governor George Ryan to issue a moratorium on the death penalty in his state. Republican leaders around the country should follow suit...
...middle school experience is fairly unique in America, which is still 72 percent white. But last week California announced that whites no longer comprised the majority of the state??s population, joining eight other states in which minorities comprise over 50 percent of the population. It’s an indication of a larger trend towards plurality in American society...
...kind which is disappearing,” the epitome of “a conscious self-sacrifice—he died in his homeland, but was never born elsewhere,” claims Lausevic. Similarly, Dimic envisions emigration as a “pathological state?? of a person who does not belong anywhere. Individual personal émigré dilemmas intertwine in the play. “Speaking to Jack [in the gastarbaiter role], I was speaking to myself,” says Lausevic. Similarly, Lausevic warns us of the threat of the “Americanization...
...must not ignore the needs and opinions of the Alaskans. The state??s entire Congressional delegation, the state??s Senate and House, the governor and 78 percent of residents of the village of Kaktovik, the Native village within the coastal plain, support development of the ANWR. Those who are closest to the area and know the unbiased facts of the situation understand that drilling can be done responsibly. Done correctly, oil drilling in the ANWR will both increase conservation efforts and aid economic growth...