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...groups expressed concern that the rate of hangings will increase. Civil rights lawyers in Britain have succeeded in frustrating many death sentences passed in the Caribbean on the grounds that the judgments are faulty or that not all legal challenges had been exhausted. Caribbean governments, faced with a rising tide of violence and drug trafficking, are eager to prove that they are enforcing the law by proceeding with executions. The court is unlikely to sit before...
...prolific acts of protest, however, remain an entirely symbolic stand against a rising tide of merde. A massive 16 tons of what sanitation officials call dejection canine is squeezed out on Paris' 2,400 km of sidewalks each day, around 12 tons of which is removed-either whisked away by broom-toting street sweepers, or sucked up by vacuum-equipped motorcycles driven by men no dog owner would dare look in the eye. The tab for cleaning up after dogs comes to $10 million annually, or $50 for each of Paris' 200,000 hounds. Ad campaigns urging owners to pick...
...hour is 11 p.m., and outside Arafat's window, the tide of the Mediterranean Sea lashes the shoreline in the blackness of the night. But the soft splashes of the waves do nothing to cut the foreboding that fills the room. On a TV in the corner is a live broadcast of the Israeli elections. Tonight Arafat's dinner seems more like a wake. His archenemy, Ariel Sharon, hasn't claimed victory yet, but with the earliest projections, Arafat has seen enough. He begins spooning up his daily bowl of vegetable soup, listening blankly as his companions talk approvingly...
Lauren E. Baer's column last week (Opinion, "Washed Away with the Tide," Feb. 14) was a well-researched and informative article on the source and distribution of laundry revenues that the budget-constrained House Committees receive. Her conclusion that "funneling laundry revenues through House Committees is not an equitable method of redistribution," however, was not as convincing...
...prices. As Richard D. Parsons, co-chief operating officer of AOL Time Warner (owner of Warner Brothers Music and this writer), Napster's proposal "doesn't solve the immediate problem" for an industry still pulling in $35 billion to $40 billion in annual sales, even swimming against the technological tide. The $1 billion proposal, Parsons told the New York Times, "does not strike me as being in the ballpark...