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...some remarkable conversions. Former Virginia attorney general William Broaddus, a Republican, used to prosecute capital cases. "It was part of our heritage and culture in Virginia," he says. Now he opposes them, after spending time with a death-row inmate he represented in 1996: "When you shake someone's hand, you start thinking." John DiIulio, the conservative crime scholar, has also changed his mind. His beef is that death row is a crapshoot because there is no logical relationship between those who commit capital crimes and those who end up facing death. Of the roughly 600,000 homicides committed...
...which mailed out self-scoring parent reports last fall. After parents rate themselves in areas like provides "pencil and school supplies" or "attended back-to- school night," children bring back the transcript. So far, says principal Lucretia Coates, the rate of return has been "overwhelming." One reason: children who hand in their parents' grades get entered in a raffle to win jewelry, yo-yos or Pokemon cards...
Eugenia Wajdenfeld stood last week in the foul-smelling hallway of a New York City courthouse, clutching her purse in one hand and a bulging green file in the other. She was immaculately dressed and polite, in contrast to most of the people she had dealt with that day. When her husband of 25 years asked for a divorce in 1998, Wajdenfeld hired a lawyer. But "he didn't do nothing," she says in a clipped Polish accent. So in January, she made a calculation that more and more Americans are making: she could do better representing herself. Though Wajdenfeld...
...hearing the fair-to-middling good news about wholesale prices from the Labor Department. The Producer Price Index, a bottom-of-the-food-chain indicator of inflation pressure, was unchanged in May, which was good news for those watching Chairman Greenspan's interest-rate trigger finger; on the other hand, the possibly more reliable "core" rate, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, edged up 0.2 percent. Complicating matters: Prognosticators were agreeably surprised by the first number and slightly disappointed by the second, leaving Wall Street with a slight urge to buy but not a reason to believe...
Those who simply want to join a rooming group in another House, on the other hand, can attempt to transfer if a space opens up in a room in that House or if the rooming group agrees to host the transfer in its existing suite...