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...outdated. In Texas a 1985 statute allows wrongly imprisoned people to collect as much as $25,000 in compensation for pain and suffering. That works out to slightly less than $6 a day for the 12 years Kevin Byrd spent in prison for a crime he didn't commit. The state agreed to pay it in May 1999, but Byrd has yet to see any money. In Texas, officials in the Attorney General's office say the state legislature needs to meet in order to appropriate funds to pay Byrd--but it still hasn't done so. State senator Rodney...
...briefs by the time the Friday ruling came down, and the 12,000 ballots from the Seminole County case were already waiting in the evidence room at the Florida Supreme Court for the inevitable appeal that could come as soon as Monday. And Gore adviser Ron Klain refused to commit the veep to a concession, even if Gore goes...
...think that students don't feel pressured to commit," said Zachary L. Bercu '04. "It causes less tension in the process...
Specific criteria for choosing Academy members have not yet been determined, but the overriding factor will be commitment to teaching--those professors who have "a passion for teaching, a willingness to commit time to teaching and a reputation as being an innovator or role model educator," Lowenstein said...
...Dunn, who, for all his bad luck, enjoys perfect health. And we mean perfect. The guy never even gets the sniffles. He is, to borrow this film's perfectly descriptive title, Unbreakable. Moreover, under Price's possibly prompting gaze, he develops a talent for spotting criminals before they actually commit a crime. Despite his modest demeanor and circumstances, Dunn has the potential to be a superhero working the real-life streets of Philadelphia...