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...issue of fairness in the death penalty in Texas--and under Bush--is particularly relevant because of the sheer number of people who have been executed on his watch. (Vice President Al Gore also favors the death penalty, but he has the advantage at the moment of not having to manage a death row.) The nation's largest state, California, has had eight executions since 1976. In the nation's second largest state, Bush has six scheduled this month alone. And even among Texas Governors Bush stands out: during the four years Ann Richards, Bush's predecessor, was Governor...
...remember my brandy bottle biting the dust with just the sheer shock of it," says Mark E. Segall '75, who watched the game at Harvard Stadium...
...other class--and many were wonderful--ever equaled the sheer intellectual and dramatic power of Professor Hartz's analysis of political philosophy over the past 300 years...
...flood of veterans helped to make the diversified Harvard of today, the influx undeniably altered the College and its undergraduates in the post-war period. And even 50 years later, the undergraduate enrollment of the Class of 1950 stands as the high water mark for the College, proving the sheer force of numbers would be the impetus for change...
...profile it possesses today. Different artists were considered important; different painters and sculptors exerted an influence on what was then the present. In some respects the art world was more tolerant, because the notion of an avant-garde was not yet all-encompassing. The ideal of high craft, of sheer manifest skill as a criterion of aesthetic success, had not yet been consigned to the trash can, and artists placed a value on drawing--however mistakenly they might sometimes have interpreted it--that was still very much alive...