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Botched executions have been competing with downed airplanes for 24/7 news coverage lately. Here’s the latest on the former: It took Arizona nearly two excruciating hours to execute Joseph Wood with drugs whose source the state concealed. Executions in California have been on hold since 2006 because of problems with lethal injections. Last week a… Read more.
College players accepting perks is as common as restaurant servers taking tips. Indeed, it’s an open secret that “boosters” ply football players with perks. And they do this for one simple, unvarnished reason: to boost players’ performance on the field. Yet the NCAA never fails to feign moral outrage anew every time this open secret makes news. Such was… Read more.
I am frankly ashamed when I see the list of Commonwealth counties that still cling to that jurisdiction (the Privy Council). Even more so to know it is a list dominated by the Caribbean. Former Commonwealth secretary general, Sir Shridath Ramphal, made this instructive admission during an address at the Inaugural Conference of the Caribbean Association… Read more.
