Word: broken
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...appeal for trial errors, 46 death row inmates had been convicted on jailhouse-informant testimony and 33 inmates had been represented by an attorney who was at one point disbarred or suspended. On Jan. 31, a spokesperson for the governor said that "It's clear that the system is broken...
...Dorthy heard dogs barking and a commotion outside. Martha's body was found at noon the next day under a tree in the Moxley yard. She lay in a 3-ft. pool of blood; her head had been bludgeoned some 14 times with a blunt instrument, and the sharp, broken shaft of that instrument, a Toney Penna 6-iron golf club, had been driven into her throat...
...McCain has repeatedly accused Bush of proposing risky tax breaks for the rich. Bush has fired back, labeling McCain a timid creature of Washington who would rather see Congress spend the budget surpluses than give taxpayers a break. At a debate in Durham, N.H., Bush resurrected his father's broken promise of "no new taxes" and went him one better, pledging that as President he will deliver "tax cuts, so help me God." By casting himself as a supply-side, tax-cutting heir to Ronald Reagan, the Governor is placing his faith in the idea that Republican voters are still...
...record was broken, a pair of sisters squared off against each other, and one half of another sisterly duo tallied two double-doubles...
...last major role, in the 1997 hit The People vs. Larry Flynt, earned her a Grammy nomination, and she has appeared in such Indie flicks as Feeling Minnesota. With her role as Andy Kaufman's girlfriend, Lynne Margulies, in this winter's Academy Award contender, she has firmly broken with her counter-culture past and moved into the Martha Stewart world of model homemakers. Watching her nurse the ailing Kaufman makes visions of Florence Nightengale dance in one's head, a definite breakthrough for a woman who had been addicted to drugs for years...