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Deciding who gets the death penalty is a "spin of the roulette wheel," he said...
This hunger is quite evident in a personality whose idea of recreation is getting behind the wheel of his BMW and outmaneuvering New York City taxi drivers. "Driving here is wonderful," he avers, "especially if you want to go fast. There's nothing greater than starting at 125th and Second Avenue and going down to 30th. You can hit the lights, and you have six lanes to maneuver in. I can't figure out why anyone would want to sit in the back...
...your senior year is acceptable and perhaps might even lead you to do something gratifying you never would have thought of otherwise. Second, there is more to life than your career: family, friends, cooking, playing soccer, throwing around a frisbee in the park. Third, wherever the hamster wheel eventually leads you, you have to like what you're doing, or otherwise getting there was futile--no matter how much money you have or how well your colleagues know your name...
...without this structural integrity, even a great ship of state will eventually become paralyzed. Because today's concerned students are indeed stakeholders in the American Dream, they cannot afford to ignore the call topside--to stand their watch and serve their fellow citizens by taking their turn at the wheel...
...success--with one loophole. If Georgia Bureau of Investigation phones are down for one business day, any applicant can get a gun--no questions asked. When a two-day blizzard shut down Atlanta last month, GBI director Nix arranged for stranded phone operators to be driven in by four-wheel drives. During that period, 24 would-be purchasers turned out to be convicted felons...