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...abused as children, and are represented by court-appointed greenhorns and burnouts better suited to traffic court--or, in their appeal stage, by no one at all. And where the case against McVeigh seems gold-plated, other defendants are sentenced to death on the basis of flimsy evidence, jury whim, prosecutorial misconduct or the luck of the draw. Stephen Bright, director of the Southern Center for Human Rights, says that in three capital cases in Houston recently defense lawyers were observed to be sleeping during the trial. All three convictions were upheld on appeal, and one of the defendants...
...years ago, Dineh Mohajer, 24, was a premed student memorizing hydrocarbon chains and looking forward to a lazy summer of shopping and hanging with friends. Today she runs Hard Candy, a company she started on a whim after mixing pale blue nail polish in her bathroom to match a pair of sandals. Last year's sales: $10 million. This year's projection: $25 million. "Someone asked, 'Why do you make nail polish for young girls with colors called Pimp and Porno?'" she recalls. "I thought, 'O.K. You're taking yourself wa-a-ay too seriously.' Like, pimp is slang...
After submitting her speech to the committee "on a whim," Jefferson said she is thrilled to have the chance to present it on commencement day but that the composition was a largely personal work...
...positive side to "queer science." The biological findings reinforce what most gays and lesbians feel about themselves--that their sexual orientation is something given, an attribute that helps define their core identity and not a mere set of behaviors that a person chooses to engage in or not as whim or morality may dictate...
...pretty excited," Blais said. "It was something I applied for on a whim at the beginning of the year, being a senior and all, but there was a vacancy in my state I never expected it would come this...