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...protest and/or react to the harm done to you. It happens in basketball all the time--a player puts up with shoves, elbows and the occasional stranglehold until he can't take it anymore and retaliates. Because of what I like to call the Murphy's Law of Blind Referees, the retaliating player gets caught and called for the foul, while the one who instigated the shoving gets the ball back along with a new 24-second clock. I worry that we as voters may be prone to Blind Referee syndrome, forgetting who started the mudslinging first, thereby giving...
...swift. The postconviction review office was shut down five years ago, and there is no public-defender service to speak of. Judges, most of them supporters of the death penalty, tend to appoint poorly trained and poorly paid lawyers. Rarely is there money for investigators. Justice is so blind that some defense lawyers can sleep undisturbed at trial: George McFarland's lawyer dozed throughout his in 1991, yet his verdict was upheld. Bad lawyering is so notorious in Texas that the legislature, not known for coddling criminals, last year unanimously passed a bill to modestly improve counsel for indigent defendants...
...loyal had Linda Tripp not been disloyal to her? (Probably.) Would Clinton himself remain loyal to anyone? (Sometimes.) These days the theme has spilled over into the primaries, where Gore has blamed Bradley for disloyalty to the Democratic Party in deserting the ship, and Bradley has accused Gore of blind loyalty to Clinton...
...macaroni, soy sauce and nutritional yeast." The response is not enthusiastic. Wu proceeds to go into the kitchen and make macaroni, soy sauce and nutritional yeast for himself. He has been vegan for three weeks. "It's actually more of a whim," he says. He drinks soy/rice/oat/almond milk on blind faith, completely unsure of "exactly how they make any of those 'milks.'" It's not the milk, but the co-op's vegan deserts that are keeping him faithful. "They're just as moist and just as fluffy...
...With that, please enjoy our third installment. Listings is more robust, shoe rapist finally came in and the groovy train is hopefully back on track. And tonight, how about a blind date upstairs at The Crimson? Because change is good...