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THE EXECUTION of Charles Brooks, Jr in a Texas prison last week was handled in a bizarre manner by the mainstream news media. In the New York Times, and on network television news shows, the fact that Brooks was the first American to be executed by lethal injection often sidetracked...
The U.S. preoccupation with the political picture in Southwest Asia is likely to draw attention away from the situation inside Pakistan. Though Zia promised elections when he overthrew the government of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1977, he has refused to set a specific date for fear of civil unrest and...
By then Katherine Anne had disposed of two husbands and, she claimed, 37 lovers. Two more husbands and uncounted lovers were still to come. Wherever she traveled, she seemed to attract admirers from the streets and from the ivory towers. Every literary encounter was charged with sexual significance. Poet Karl...
I remember how angry I used to get with Sadegh Ghotbzadeh [Sept. 27] and that smug smile of his. After reading about his execution, however, I had to feel sorry for him.
The campaign in favor of this ballot questions represents demagoguery at its worst. Urban residents have grown increasingly uncomfortable in recent years about the dangerous environment that surrounds them. But promising legal execution merely panders to these fears, rather than constructively taking care of them. Every thorough study has shown...