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...During the campaign you emphasized how some places like West Virginia were left out of the winners column in the Clinton Administration. What are the politics of coal, in your view...
...doesn't explicitly cover executions. "The U.S. Supreme Court has always stopped short of guaranteeing a First Amendment right to general access to government information," says Robert O'Neil, a law professor and director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression at the University of Virginia. "It has declared such a right with regard to criminal trials, which are always open to the public. But it seems to me that to claim a general media right to access an entire execution is stretching anything that's currently on the books...
...countries equally. Such a repudiation is one more argument the Administration is using to pull the plug on Kyoto - though the Senate was probably driven by more than mere conscience. One of the 1997 resolution's sponsors was Democratic Senator Robert Byrd, from the coal-producing state of West Virginia. Other interests - notably the oil and coal industries, both heavy contributors to Bush's election campaign - also had the President...
When Robert Roydall Reese was 14 years old, his mother gave up and kicked him out. He was, she said, uncontrollable, too much like his father?too black. Robert's father is named John Roydall Reese. He is from West Virginia. That is all Robert knows about him. That is all he knows about the man that made him too black...
...Harvard offers a liberal arts education. This has no practical purpose. I study government. Not political science; government. I learn about tyranny of the majority, not health care. Rather than learning about basic accounting or business management, as my brother at Virginia Tech does, my bookshelf is full of Thoreau and my checkbook is a mess. I am learning how to think, although I have nothing that practical to think about (something you may have noticed from this column). Not that I mind, I may never get rich, but as one government professor noted, I will never be bored...