As far as prisoner-rights advocate Mara Taub is concerned, New Mexico hasn’t really repealed the death penalty.

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Each session, legislators close down with the call of sine die, from the Latin, which translates literally as “without a day,” meaning there’s no telling when they may meet again. Of course, that’s ridiculous: Gov. Bill Richardson loves his special sessions and, no matter what, they’ll be back in January 2010 for the 30-day budget session.
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This project began a year and a half ago with the United World College’s Beyond Borders club, a dozen or so students, from places such as Zimbabwe, Poland, Iraq and Hong Kong, who all have a common interest in human rights. Students interviewed each other—Costa Ricans spoke to Tanzanians, Americans surveyed Cambodians—and then shared their findings. The individual words were written and rewritten into a single voice to reflect a global youth vision of the melting pot of challenges and hopes for the future.