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...Sept. 27, the U.S. Supreme Court stopped a Texas execution two days after agreeing to hear arguments about whether lethal injection falls under the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. The toxic serum is meant to be pain-free, but there is some doubt about the drug's numbing anesthetic. While the court hears the case, 12 of the 37 states that use lethal injection have halted executions so far. [This article contains a complex diagram. Please see hardcopy of magazine...
People throughout the nation are going ga-ga for Barack Obama. Many see his novel politics of hope as the cure for a toxic Washington culture of partisanship and corruption. What many fail to realize is that a number of politicians just like Obama have recently sprung up throughout the country...
...year ago, at the party's 2006 convention, many delegates sounded battle-ready: they were squaring up to their own colleagues. Supporters of Tony Blair, then still Premier but openly planning his departure, were at loggerheads with the adherents of his rival, Brown. "It was a pretty toxic event," Jon Cruddas, an MP on the left of the party, told a meeting in Bournemouth. He said he feared that Labour "was approaching free fall...
...there's a man! The New York Daily News, owned by neoconservative Mort Zuckerman, runs the headline the evil has landed. The cable news networks hyperventilate. Even the president of Columbia University, Lee Bollinger, feels the need to demolish Ahmadinejad - elegantly, I must say - before the speech. A giant toxic bubble overwhelms the public square...
...Many experts blamed his defeat on a toxic political environment caused by the deteriorating situation in Iraq, even though Leach himself had opposed the war from the start...