Word: annelies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...name to add to its honor roll of former guests, which includes Bill Clinton, Jack Kemp, Ann Richards, Nobel Winner Rigoberta Menchu and yes, even Newt Gingrich Now they can pencil in Barbra Streisand. Unfortunately, she's rain on the IOP's parade of consistent cutting-edge political relevance...
Jake Baker, a quiet, bespectacled University of Michigan sophomore, has just learned that a little creative writing on the Internet can lead to jail -- at least, when it's a fantasy about raping, torturing and murdering a real person. Baker, 20, was arrested in Ann Arbor for having posted a lurid sex-murder fantasy on the Usenet newsgroup alt.sex.stories last November. "Torture is foreplay, rape is romance, snuff (killing) is climax," one of Baker's messages read. Ordinarily, the story might never drawn outside attention, but Baker got into trouble for giving his fictional victim the name of a real...
...teach children a moral lesson when our own judicial system seems perverted and backward? While Jesse Jacobs may have been guilty of other crimes, he was not guilty of murdering Etta Ann Urdiales. But the state of Texas went ahead and executed him anyway [Justice, Jan. 16]. The Supreme Court needs to remember that not only does it decide issues of law, but it must also do what is right. How can the Justices sleep at night knowing they may be sentencing innocent people to death? This is just another example of how the U.S. legal system no longer holds...
...hospital later that night, and had Clark back in court the next day arguing heatedly for a 30-day continuance and sanctions against the defense, was Cochran's citing of more than a dozen witnesses not previously on the defense's witness list. One of the fresh witnesses: Mary Ann Gerchas, the woman who claimed she had seen men in knit caps running away from Nicole's house on the night of the murder. Cochran said another couple will testify that at 10:25 p.m., 10 minutes after prosecutors say the murders were committed, they saw nothing amiss outside Nicole...
...hosted by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, and attended by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Jordan's King Hussein. After five hours of private talks, the four leaders also denounced terrorism, and agreed to work toward a nuclear-free Middle East. TIME State Department correspondent Ann Simmons reports that the U.S. has invited the foreign ministers of all four countries to meet in Washington later this month to continue the discussions...