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...poet for the sound-bite century. Consider the famous passage from Paradise Lost, describing Eve in Eden, which is one of the culminating exhibits in Smith's celebration of Milton. The 20-line sentence contains 20 proper names: Enna, Prosperin, Dis, Ceres, Daphne, Orontes, Castalian, Nyseian, Triton, Cham, Ammon, Lybian Jove, Amalthea, Bacchus, Rhea, Abassin, Amara, Ethiop, Nilus, Assyrian. How many people nowadays (even among the exceptionally well-educated readers of TIME) know what all those words mean? I majored in classics at university, and there's a part of me that savors Milton's weaving of so much ancient...
CONVICTED. DANIEL PELOSI, 41, an electrician; of the 2001 fatal beating of multimillionaire Wall Street banker Theodore Ammon in his East Hampton, N.Y., home; in Riverhead, N.Y. Against his lawyers' advice, the brash Pelosi, who had been romantically involved with Ammon's estranged wife, took the stand in his defense, testifying that he enjoyed zapping co-workers with a stun gun and would like to have used the gun on the lead prosecutor. He faces 25 years to life in prison...
CHARGED. DANIEL PELOSI, 40, electrician; with second-degree murder in the bludgeoning death of wealthy Manhattan financier Theodore Ammon in Ammon's ivy-covered East Hampton, N.Y., mansion; in Riverhead, N.Y. The case captured tabloid headlines, as Pelosi married Ammon's widow three months after the murder. He has pleaded not guilty...
...homicide investigation plodded along, the Ammon-Pelosi marriage seemed to deteriorate. Ammon, gravely ill with breast cancer, moved back into the East Hampton home with her children in June. In July the couple signed a postnuptial agreement that left Pelosi $2 million and their Center Moriches, N.Y., home. At the same time, Ammon apparently had her lawyer draft a will to replace one she had written a year earlier awarding the bulk of her $34 million fortune to Pelosi "absolutely and forever." According to her attorney, the new, 37-page document was in effect when Ammon, 47, died...
...Ammon's deathbed wishes may not be honored. Pelosi's attorney, Gerald Shargel, says his client is "considering" contesting the new will. In the old document, Shargel says, Ammon's signature is clear. In the new one, he says, it is illegible. Ted Ammon's sister, Sandi Williams, said she will fight to get custody of the twins. And Ammon's cremated remains, plunked down on the Stanhope bar, were supposed to go to the nanny for safekeeping, Ammon's lawyer says. Pelosi, who picked up the box of ashes at the funeral home, has said he plans to sprinkle...