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...state and the convict can get impatient. Since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, almost 12% of all U.S. executions have been of so-called volunteers, murderers who plead guilty and ask for death or, more commonly, waive their appeals. As death houses around the country begin to crowd with volunteers, however, their presence raises questions about whether a justice system can be fair when it is distorted by demands from the condemned...
...southern tip of India. Clearly visible is the low line of motorized dhonis tethered in the harbor, and just beyond the boats, a row of multistory buildings that seem to be floating like a mirage. Exactly where, I find myself wondering, does the sea end and the land begin? For Malé--with its crowded shopping streets, its lively fish market, its gold-domed Friday mosque--might just as well have been built on a lily pad, so low does it ride in the water...
Perhaps the toddlers, who begin their careers at home as two-year-old Raggedy Anns before graduating to become Pom-Poms, Baby Dolls, Barbie Dolls and the rest, are somewhat less eager than their mothers to extol "the need for professionalism, the need for perfection." But for the most part, the votaries tumble over themselves in their affirmation of the golden rules they have mastered. "When you say you can do something, you can do it," says Robin Snow, 15. "When you say you can't, you can't." Everywhere, giggles abound. "When you get girls together," says Shawn...
...troop inside a small room and start chanting and swaying in unison as U.S.A. Singer-Songwriter Peter Dergee delivers a set just for them. And when, toward the end, Dergee lowers his voice for a love song, there are enough hugs to shame a group-therapy session, and eyes begin to glisten...
...wrong when I said the NYT didn't mention Dale Earnhardt's death on the front page the day after his death. There have been novels and Broadway plays written about Ann Coulter's one mistake, which was pretty minor IMHO [in my humble opinion]--the Times article DID begin: 'His death brought a silence to the Wal-Mart...