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Dunn, Roberto •new murder trial is demanded by on account of two of the convicting jurors having had sex while sequestered...
...first multi-millionaire, penned the diary while he was studying classics at Cambridge in the 1840s. Now, for the first time in more than a century, his work is being republished in An American In Victorian Cambridge: Charles Astor Bristed's "Five Years in An English University." His rich account of Cambridge's devil-may-care student life is part memoir, part instructional guide: it offers tips on navigating the city's twisting streets and preparing for the university's notoriously difficult exams, while also divulging how students weaseled their way out of them. (See TIME...
...foreign automakers based in the South, who account for almost a third of all cars built in the U.S., have now become the benchmark against which the Big Three are measured. As the various aid packages were being negotiated, first on Capitol Hill and then this week on the other side of Pennsylvania Avenue, one constant condition Republicans insisted upon was Detroit getting its wages and benefits down to the levels of the so-called transplant workers in states like Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and Mississippi. (See pictures of the remains of Detroit...
...federal government ran fairly impeachment-free for the next century or so - a corrupt judge here, a kickback-receiving Secretary of War there - until the epochal undoing of President Richard Nixon, who avoided the indignity of being called to account for the Watergate conspiracy by resigning before Congress had a chance to impeach him. Then, in 1998, came President Bill Clinton, with the Blue Dress and the cigars and the statement, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman...
...story to national magazines. By then, age had taken its toll and it was difficult to ask him the kinds of specific questions that would have confirmed his claim. There was also the problem that his story's exclusivity could have been quickly eclipsed by Woodward's own account of the relationship. Later, Felt's family and his attorney told the story themselves in Vanity Fair magazine. Woodward subsequently published a short book detailing the relationship, providing the most interesting footnotes to a grim historical moment in the country's history...