Word: executioner
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And what negatives Harvard has been plagued by--too many turnovers--may not be all that bad. Nearly half of the Crimson's turnovers on Saturday were the results of poor entry passes into the paint. While the execution may have faltered, the strategy was sound. By trying to pound...
GRANTED. JUAN RAUL GARZA, 44, the first federal prisoner scheduled for execution since 1963; a six-month reprieve; by President Clinton; in Terre Haute, Ind. Citing racial and geographic disparities in the federal death-penalty system, Clinton passed the fate of the convicted murderer to the next Administration.
The Gore lawyers were poring over the Court's swirl of words with a reflexive eye for loopholes. Back to the Florida Supremes, maybe squeeze in a count by Dec. 18? If the Justices left Gore some wiggle room (and Ed Rendell got pounced on for suggesting he had none...
Aysan Celik's Antigone, on the other hand, captures the ambiguities and changing motives that Sophocles built into her role. At the beginning of the play, she trespasses Creon's decree with an eye to glorious martyrdom, only to become hideously frightened once her execution is inevitable. Thompson's Creon...
Tonight, Al Gore, his surrogates - not to mention all the Democrats who must have been ready Friday to call for his concession - will react to his latest stay of execution with restrained elation and a brand-new plea: Let the counts finish, it won't be long. But even if...