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Living to see another day
They don’t call them the Supremes for nothing. The U.S. Supreme Court halted the execution—for the time being—of Abu-Ali Abdur’Rahman after seeing enough evidence of a constitutional train wreck in Tennessee. Attorneys for Abdur’Rahman had argued to the nation’s highest court that the lawyers in his 1987 murder trial—both for the prosecution and the defense—were so inept as to impede his constitutional rights to a fair trial. Abdur’Rahman was to be executed this week by lethal injection.
The president touches down
George Bush visited his old Yale University chum and fellow blueblood Victor Ashe, who is mayor of Knoxville, on Monday in a flag-draped event that was supposed to dramatize homeland security. Less scripted was the furious behind-the-scenes politicking by Republican Senate candidates Lamar Alexander and Ed Bryant, both of whom were at the event and jockeying to get close to the Prez. The New York Times said after Bush’s visit that “White House officials have made clear in private that their preferred candidate is the former Gov. Lamar Alexander, a two-time presidential contender, and not Representative Ed Bryant, who is more conservative.” The Bush administration has been kind to Ashe, visiting his Republican stronghold often and appointing him to a prized federal board.
Ag report
Considering that you can plant your veggies as early as April 15 and likely avoid a frost, you may want to visit the show barn at the Ellington Agricultural Center this weekend for the annual herb sale. Basil, dill, mint, rosemary—you name it, they got it. The sale is Saturday, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., but get there early.
Ensworth considers a high school
One of Nashville’s most elite kindergarten-through-eighth grade institutions, Ensworth School, will decide soon whether to start a coeducational high school on a plot of land near Edwin Warner Park. Most were applauding the move, in that it would offer more options for those in the private school universe. Others, however, worried that it might weaken the strong franchises at the single sex Harpeth Hall and Montgomery Bell Academy. Leading the charge for the high school are members of the beneficent Frist family.
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