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...that just isn't so. Death in Texas, where there are about 450 capital cases pending, is swift. The postconviction review office was shut down five years ago, and there is no public-defender service to speak of. Judges, most of them supporters of the death penalty, tend to appoint poorly trained and poorly paid lawyers. Rarely is there money for investigators. Justice is so blind that some defense lawyers can sleep undisturbed at trial: George McFarland's lawyer dozed throughout his in 1991, yet his verdict was upheld. Bad lawyering is so notorious in Texas that the legislature...
PSLM members said sit-ins taking place on other campuses sparked the administration's swift response...
...short of the necessary two-thirds required to remove him, it highlights Burton's unethical campaign practices and signifies a lack of confidence in his ability to lead the council. His credibility damaged, Burton faces two options: a wasteful year-long struggle to lead a hostile council or a swift resignation from office for the good of Harvard student government. We urge him to choose the latter...
...climbed to power in 1933, believed they could not just stand by and say nothing. "We are aware of possible reactions and feelings among Austrian people, but...we think it is our duty to react in this way," said Frederic Desagneux, a spokesman for French President Jacques Chirac. The swift reaction was also a reminder that Austria is not alone in flirting with the right. In Germany, far-right parties hold seats in four of 16 states. And in Switzerland, Belgium and France there are nascent but energetic extremist movements knocking on the political door...
...membership), but the doyen of the best-seller list may have topped herself with The Eyebrow, a book due out this spring from her own imprint on eyebrow upkeep by...the woman who plucks Regan's eyebrows. "Robyn Cosio changed my life," Regan gushed to Publishers Weekly. "With a swift move of her hand, she reshaped my eyebrows, giving me the instant facelift I needed." Cosio is no pedestrian plucker; she often reshapes 50 brows a day at $50 a pop, and her clients include Courteney Cox and Susan Sarandon. Whether Cosio can write is a mystery, but no doubt...