Word: persons
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...legacy is that he brings economics down to the level of the common person," McGovern said...
...person of real merit to reach that high is a testament to our political process," Blumenthal said...
...know this because, in keeping with a morbid convention in media coverage of executions, the condemned person's final meal has already been broadcast to the world by the wire services. And soon it will find its way onto what may be the most macabre culinary site on the Web: The Texas Department of Criminal Justice?s Final Meal Requests page...
...Governments are not in the habit of going out of their way to satisfy the voyeuristic impulses of a morbidly curious public. Perhaps there's simply some bureaucratic sense of duty to record the minutiae of a condemned person's last day on earth. Or perhaps our culture has evolved this ritual of the ? la carte last meal to sugarcoat what remains a grim act of violence by the state to redress a previous wrong. After all, in some countries, a condemned man's last meal is whatever the prison kitchen happens to be serving that day, and death...
...House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt and New Hampshire Gov. Jeanne Shaheen are no longer under consideration since they have said they don't want the job, a person familiar with the selection process said yesterday. Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh also is no longer in contention for the post, a source familiar with the deliberations said. Barring a late entry by a surprise contender, that leaves three senators in the running for the post: John F. Kerry of Massachusetts, John Edwards of North Carolina and Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut." (Jeanne Cummings and Jackie Calmes...