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...amounted tocruel and unusual punishment, in part because his prolonged imprisonment had eliminated the possibility that executing him would accomplish retribution or serve as a deterrent. TIME New York correspondent Adam Cohen described the liberal judge's essay as a "bombshell" attempt to subvert aconservative high courtas states gear up for a "huge number" of executions. He notes that a growing number of conservative politicians and judges have been expanding capital punishment statutes and refusing to delay or block executions...
...terrorist with a Kalashnikov in one hand and a cellular phone in the other, talking to some faraway co-conspirator (or maybe his mother), is not farfetched. Manchevski makes this point almost surrealistically: his peasant gunmen go about their bloody business clad in Nikes and other American-made sports gear...
...understand wecan't make endless demands on the poor bugger,"McArthur says. "When he came here it was likelanding on Normandy beach...it's this poor bastardgetting swept in from Princeton and landing on thebeach and he doesn't know anybody, but I think hecan put it in second gear...
...fill the stands. We'd blow the opposition fans out the door. Cambridge police would be directing traffic to the game in riot gear. (It happened Tuesday night when the women's basketball championship was free...
...walking along the lakeshore, which, in Chicago in January, is madness. But we hail from North Dakota, and we have all the cold-weather gear it takes to do this. I tell him about Raster and the cable company...