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That argument, prosecutors retort, is an invitation to anarchy. If a woman has survived past beatings, what persuaded her that this time was different, that she had no choice but to kill or be killed? The real catalyst, they suggest, was not her fear but her fury. Prosecutors often turn a woman's history of abuse into a motive for murder. "What some clemency advocates are really saying is that that s.o.b. deserved to die and why should she be punished for what she did," argues Dressler. Unless the killing came in the midst of a violent attack, it amounts...
...Dizzy was the catalyst, the man who inspired us all," the great drummer Max Roach has said. "By the time he came to New York he was playing in all the Big Bands. He was the one who told us about a saxophone player in Kansas City named Charlie Parker or a bass player in Minneapolis named Oscar Pettiford." Dizzy brought them all together to play at a fabled Harlem joint called Minton's, where, after the regular sessions, strange scrambled rhythms and impossible harmonies would float toward the dawn. It was, indeed...
...mandate, claiming a rationale for his election beyond the rejection of Bush, is critical for Clinton for two reasons: 1) despite his impressive victory, a majority of Americans voted for someone else; and 2) there is a vast difference between being an instrument of change and being a catalyst for change. Clinton "thought about beginning this definitional process before the election," says Kamarck, "but the result was in too much doubt, and he had to make sure...
...also a strong advocate of education reform. Braun often cites education as the catalyst of her rise from a working class background to the Illinois General Assembly and the Cook County Recorder of Deeds...
Participants and instructors expect that theTeachers Program will serve as a catalyst forchanging "the system", according to Loveman. Butall parties indicated that change may be slow incoming...