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...still quite expensive, is becoming more common--as are more skeptical defense questions about lab procedures. "There is less need to proffer this evidence as if it's from some alien culture," says law professor John Dwyer of the University of California, Berkeley. "It's still not quite akin to, 'Here's a fingerprint--how can you possibly contest it?' but it's way different than it was 12 months ago." Already overburdened courts are bracing for the prospect of more criminal defendants who refuse to cop a plea, opting instead for an O.J. dash for daylight before a jury...
...Holy Cross has a much simpler offense [than Cornell]," said Harvard captain Justin Frantz, in statement akin to saying the 49ers are good. "We have a simpler plan for both our offense and defense this week. Their offense is pretty balanced, which makes it like Cornell...
...stab them in the back again. It will come as no surprise to them. Throughout the years, the U.S. government has broken promises and reneged on one treaty after another. Senator Gorton's assertion that as budget cuts take place, Native Americans must sacrifice like other Americans is akin to Hitler's telling the Jews in Auschwitz that although conditions there were bad, things in Berlin were not so good either. The American Indians in our country need to rise up to oppose this betrayal. Shame on Senator Gorton, and shame on the U.S. government. JAMES MILLS Hanover, New Hampshire...
...himself and his work but therefore more wise than he had been during the early years. As with Hoffmann, "Hour of the Wolf" is as much a metaphor for indeterminacy and clouded perception as for insanity. Both artists share the very (post)-modern attitude that insanity is more akin to conviction than indecision. Appropriately, Bergman prevents his viewers from drawing too many conclusions...
...door" accused of the brutal rapes and murders of two teenage girls in Canada, of all nine counts against him in just seven hours. The trial, with its sordid videotape evidence of Bernardo and his wife Karla Homolka sexually abusing the teenagers, often transfixed Canadians with twists and turns akin to those in the O.J. Simpson case. "At the high points of the trial, such as when Bernardo testified, people were lining up at four in the morning to get one of the one hundred courtroom seats," reports TIME's Gavin Scott in Toronto. "But when police, forensic experts...