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- 2631: Arnold Schwarzenegger
- ... career has been on the rise. He was the main actor in such movies as Conan the Barbarian, and. Not only has Arnold settled for acting, he is now directing his own films. In 1990, George Bush named Arnold as chairman of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. Arnold appeared at many sports and fitness demonstrations around the United States. Arnold would stress the importance of being physically ...
- 2632: Capital Punishment and the Death Penalty
- ... everywhere. Currently the only accepted means of execution are: electrocution, the gas chamber, firing squad and lethal injection. (Bedau1) The firing squad is only used it Utah upon request. (Guernsey, 54) Montana, New Hampshire and Washington are the only states that allow hangings. (55) The electric chair was introduced in New York in 1890 and is now used in 24 states. (Bedau2) The criminal is seated in a chair. Electrodes are ...
- 2633: No Speed Limit In Virginia
- ... should be lifted from all interstate and state highways. The fact is the speed limit, which is set at 55 miles per hour around the area, causes many problems and traffic. The traffic in the Washington, DC metropolitan area is one of the worst in the United States. Especially on highway 66 where there is always a lot of traffic because people are worried about going the right speed due to ...
- 2634: Drug Trafficking In Mexico
- ... between the two nations' law enforcement agencies. The failure of the task forces points to the deep distrust and differences in perception on both sides of the border, despite official rhetoric in Mexico City and Washington praising binational cooperation. The task forces' Mexican component was dismantled after Gen. Jesus Gutierrez Rebollo, head of Mexico's anti-drug agency, was arrested in February 1997 for alleged ties to one of the country ...
- 2635: The Death Penalty: The Deterrent
- ... violent crime such as murder, therefore the death penalty must always be supported by the citizens of our nation. Work Cited Holy Bible, Nashville: Holman, 1977. Lee, Robert W. "Deserving To Die." Taking Sides. Ed. George McKenna and Stanley Feingold. Guilford: Brown & Benchmark, 1997. 156-163 Lowe, Wesley. "Pro Capital Punishment." World Wide Web News 19 Feb. 1998. (4 March 1998). Maiken, Peter. and Terry Sullivan. Killer Clown. New York: Windsor ...
- 2636: Against Gun Control
- ... controlling people. To extend gun controls would make the nation better for criminals and worse for the rest of us. Works Cited U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, "Lifetime Likelihood of Victimization," BJS Technical Report, Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, March 1987. Gary Kleck, Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America (Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter, 1991), p. 203. Gary Kleck, "Lifesaving Benefits to Use of Weapons for Self ...
- 2637: Gun Control
- ... murders in America. Metropolitan centers and some suburban communities of America are setting new records for homicides by handguns. Larger Metropolitan centers have ten times the murder rate of all Western Europe. For example in Washington,D.C. there was an estimated 400 homicides including guns. In addition gun control has been seen as necessary because of the violence by criminals using guns. Gun control is wrapped in a series of ...
- 2638: The Drug War in America
- ... cocaine but would be much less likely to overdose on 5 grams of crack. Reports that crime is down due to the success of the drug war may not be accurate. One reporter for the Washington Post state that reports that say that violent crime has decreased since 1993 fail to take in to account the usually high levels of violence that prevailed in the late 1980s and early 1099s. (Las ...
- 2639: Colin Powell
- ... including the Legion of Merit [source 2 (biography page 1) (interview page 2)]. In 1989 Powell became the Chairman of Joint Chief of Staff. At Powell's Honor Ceremony (outside on the White house lawn) George Bush did a speech and Dick Cheny made a speech about Powell's Chairmanship. Powell spoke about a painting in the pentagon. It showed a family praying in a church because the father had to ...
- 2640: Farai Chideya
- ... at Harvard. After her graduation, she was hired at Newsweek as a reporter and stayed on from 1990-1994. Chideya covered news in Newsweek's New York and Chicago bureaus, as well as in the Washington bureau, where she covered national politics, from an article titled "Skewering Congressional Pork," to following President Clinton as a pool reporter on Air Force One. Soon afterward, Chideya made her transition to newswriting at MTV ...
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