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Ashcroft's campaign against Judge White-- and whatever success it may bring to his campaign against Carnahan in 2000--sends the message to all state judges that if they want to get on the federal bench, they'd better start upholding some death penalties. When a case is hard, as Judge White found Missouri v. Johnson, and when the defendant's right to a new trial is unclear, how will those judges decide? The perverse political incentives make it seem inevitable that a defendant who may not deserve the death penalty will some day receive it because the judges...
Many of our most celebrated authors have achieved success under noms de plume: Samuel Clemens as Mark Twain, Marian Evans as George Eliot and now MICK FOLEY as Mankind. This week Foley, a pro wrestler who has been known as Cactus Jack and Dude Love, will see his first book, Have a Nice Day! A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks, hit No. 2 on the New York Times nonfiction best-seller list. In his memoir Foley relates how he overcame broken bones, a lost ear and a worthy opponent named "the Rock" to win the World Wrestling Federation belt last...
Microsoft's success has endless ripples. With more than 5 billion shares out and a market value exceeding $400 billion, the company is among those with the most widely owned stocks in creation. Virtually every institution holds Microsoft stock, including those that manage your retirement accounts. Fidelity Investments has 149 million shares spread among 60 funds. If the bottom ever falls out of this baby, look out. The collateral damage will be nuclear, especially now that Microsoft is part of the Dow Jones industrial average...
...found the statistics for academic achievement among Webster Groves' African-American students particularly disheartening. It is very sad that the school would place the academic success of its black students, particularly its star athlete, so low. Athletes are to be thanked for the many hours of enjoyment they bring us. Our greatest achievements, however, have been directed by those who possess powerful analytical skills for critiquing both our culture and the nature of man's existence. Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X--none of these men came to prominence by way of athletics. They wielded...
Martha Stewart's success may be due to a keen business mind [NOTEBOOK, Nov. 1], but I'd say it's because she never discards anything. Once she told us not to toss the toilet-paper roll because it would make a dandy bird toy. Next I fear she'll say, "Wait, don't flush..." TOM MURRAY San Luis Obispo, Calif...