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...wrote the majority opinion allowing capital punishment of the mentally retarded, saying a "national consensus" that the practice was wrong had not yet formed. But by 2002 she was convinced things had changed and voted with the majority to end it. It was just the kind of switch that made the court's more doctrinaire conservatives nuts: "Seldom has an opinion of this court rested so obviously upon nothing but the personal views of its members," Associate Justice Antonin Scalia sniffed in a dissent. This year, though, O'Connor didn't join the majority of the court in putting...
...series of cinematic duds has analysts wondering if the movie-house business is slowly going dark, as film fans switch to DVDs. No, say AMC and Loews, which are merging in an estimated $4 billion deal to create AMC Entertainment. The new company will have 4,592 screens in 338 theaters in 30 states, second to market leader Regal's 6,273 screens...
...Design-wise, there's just one thing that bothered me: because the adapter sits on top of the iPod, it covers up the Hold switch. When you pull out the adapter (or, generally speaking, when you pull anything out of the headphone jack), newer iPods automatically pause. This means that when you're listening to music and lift the adapter to flip the Hold switch, you end up pausing your music then locking your controls. The solution to this weird little riddle is to play your music first, hit the Hold switch second, then put the headphone adapter...
Just a month ago, Harvard students leaving Boston for the summer had only one way to trek to the airport on public transportation: take the Red Line inbound from Harvard, switch to the Green Line eastbound at Park Street, switch to the Blue Line outbound at Government Center, ride that train to the Airport stop, and then take a free shuttle bus to the correct terminal...
Casey, a successful lawyer who made a name for himself as a corruption-fighting auditor general in the early '70s, lost three previous attempts for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Ironically, Scranton's father, a popular Governor from 1963 to 1967, once urged Casey to switch parties and run for Governor as a Republican. "I am more in the mainstream of Pennsylvania," Casey says. Playing on Scranton's quirky past, he adds: "I really don't know what his political philosophy is. To go from George McGovern to Ronald Reagan defies definition." Casey's commercials lampoon Scranton's poor attendance record...