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...Last year, after months of public hearings, a Maryland state commission on the death penalty voted 13-9 to recommend that it should be abolished. In its final report the commission, which was headed by former U.S. Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti, cited the usual objections to capital punishment - cost, racial and jurisdictional disparities in sentencing, its ineffectiveness as a deterrent against crime and the possibility that innocent people might be put to death. One of the commission's members was Kirk Bloodsworth, who had been on death row in Maryland for two years in the mid-1980s before...
...registered 1 kg (2.2 lbs.) even with nothing on it. When he arrived at his destination, he weighed his bag on another scale and found that it was under the 10-kg limit. Good thing Oprah doesn't have Ryanair's scales, or she'd be more depressed than usual...
...together a five-game winning streak, including a 3-1 victory over Merrimack on Friday night that saw the Terrier’s long-time coach, Jack Parker, earn his 800th career win. As the second-best team in the country, the Terriers bring all the usual attributes of a top-ranked squad to both ends of the ice. The Terriers bring a stingy defense led by senior Matt Gilroy, a two-time All-American whose name has already been mentioned as a natural choice for first-team All-America honors again this year. BU’s defense...
...arose out of a mix of necessity and pragmatism as well as a fundamental belief, expressed by Malek-Afzali, that "women are the axis of health development and health is the axis of sustainable development." By working in grass-roots structures, WHV has been free of the usual bureaucratic baggage, not to mention that these volunteers are saving the government millions of dollars. "We took women from the neighborhoods, trained them once a week in our health centers and sent them out to educate the 50 families under their care, mostly their own families and neighbors," he explains. The government...
...even before the economy collapsed, were threatening the Treasury with bankruptcy. By any standard, it is a massive three-month agenda fraught with political risk. The key to getting it all done, Summers says, is entering into a "compact" with the country "that this isn't just government as usual throwing money at things." When Obama unveils his annual budget in late February or March, Summers promises that the President "is going to describe the kinds of approaches he wants to take to the entitlement problems that have been ignored for a long time." Some options might include delaying retirement...