Word: allowed
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...department policy. Could it be that the policy is designed to protect the condemned men's health? It could simply be based on the judgment that a cigarette is a pleasure that should be denied a man who has committed crimes ugly enough to warrant execution. But then why allow the same man the pleasure of choosing his last meal, as opposed to simply giving him whatever the prison kitchen was serving that...
Cruz's chances for an appeal are diminishing by the minute: Under Texas law, Perry can grant Cruz a one-time, 30-day reprieve - a cushion of time that might allow Cruz's lawyers to pursue their appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled in 1998 that capital punishment for retarded inmates was not "cruel and unusual punishment." (Federal law contradicts the Court: Legislation passed by President Reagan prohibits the execution of mentally retarded federal inmates...
These tendencies are legacies of segregation and the denial of equal educational opportunities, McWhorter says. But today such attitudes have taken on a life of their own, and their destructive effects are worsened by racial preferences, which allow "black people [to] get the very best things doing less of a job than everybody else." Because black students' grades and scores on standardized tests were the lowest of any group at Berkeley, McWhorter says, many whites and Asian Americans figured that "blacks are just plain dumb...
Marty's windsurf from Dakar, Senegal, to French Guiana took 37 days. He refused even to allow his support boat to tow him while he slept: "I didn't want to gain a single mile unless my wrists and arms felt it," he later told a magazine interviewer. "For me, freedom is being able to choose my own challenges. I am not afraid of losing, because there are honorable defeats." Among them, surely, his defeat last week...
...Bell Atlantic-GTE offshoot went unanswered, even as company officials continued their talks with about 85,000 deeply disgruntled employees. The workers, who tend to the telephone needs of roughly 25 million Verizon customers, primarily along the eastern seaboard, are up in arms over the company's refusal to allow wireless employees to unionize. There are other labor issues at stake as well - forced overtime, job stress, outsourcing work to non-union contractors - but the spotlight remains fixed on workforce unionization...