During the 2008 election season, politicians from both sides of the aisle promised to rid government of lobbyists' undue influence. Based on a comprehensive examination of ninety-eight issues, this title demonstrates that sixty per cent of the lobbying campaigns failed to change policy despite millions of dollars spent trying.
Forty years and 1,400 executions after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the death penalty constitutional, eminent political scientist Frank Baumgartner and a team of younger scholars have collaborated to assess the empirical record and provide a definitive account of how the death penalty has been implemented. A Statistical Portrait of the Death Penalty shows that all the flaws that caused the Supreme Court to invalidate the death penalty in 1972 remain and indeed that new problems have arisen. Far from "perfecting the mechanism" of death, the modern system has failed.
Eine junge Frau, auf der Suche nach sich selbst. Im Rahmen ihrer Selbstfindung entschließt sie sich dazu, einen Hundewelpen zu kaufen. Die Zwei entwickeln eine ganz spezielle Bindung zu einander, und starten gemeinsam in ein aufregendes, neues Hobby. Den Schutzhundesport. Aber schon bald kippt die Stimmung, als den jungen Schäferhund ein furchtbarer Schicksalsschlag ereilt...