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...Staff writer Virginia A. Fisher can be reached at vafisher@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Virginia A. Fisher can be reached at vafisher@fas.harvard.edu...
...have missed it, but that dull, thudding sound in the political background over the weekend was Republicans pummeling Democrats on, of all things, corruption.That's because last Friday, the top-ranking Democrat on the House ethics committee, West Virginia's Alan Mollohan, was forced to step down temporarily from that post over charges of - what else? - unethical behavior. And Republicans didn't miss this golden opportunity to pile...
...have been more bored. She lazily skimmed her new paperback copy of Reviving Ophelia—she must have read the old one down to shreds. She just stood there, popping another piece of Doublemint, or reapplying her lip gloss, or slapping her ever-present pack of Virginia Slims against her palm. (Insert oral fixation jokes, here, here and here.) Her hair—usually dishwater brown and wavy—had been straightened and bleached the color of sweet corn since the last time I saw her...Just when I thought she had maxed out on hooter hugeness...
...debate over Illinois's pioneering roll back of the death penalty comes as more and more states are conducting their own reappraisals. In recent years, states from New York and New Jersey to Kansas, Virginia, Kentucky and California, have either enacted a similar moratorium, had certain executions ruled out by the courts or at least started doing comprehensive studies of the death penalty system...