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...murder case, practically every defendant is indigent," says Larry Hammond, a criminal lawyer in Phoenix, Arizona. "They may not have started that way, but for anyone other than the super-rich, they will be indigent before the case is over...
Virginia Depper was sitting in her bedroom on a quiet October evening near Tucson, Arizona, when two bullets shattered her window. As she was on the phone to 911, she began to scream in terror. She was being bludgeoned to death. What was she saying? The 911 tape is garbled, but it may have been, "No ... Dale ... don't!'' Twenty-four hours later, Depper's ex-husband, anesthesiologist Dale Bertsch, was arrested and charged with murder. Several prominent criminal lawyers he contacted quoted him fees in the $250,000 range. Instead, he used attorney Larry Hammond, who agreed to take...
...images imply that such disks are a crucial part of the starmaking process and not, as Arizona State University astronomer Jeff Hester puts it, "just the peculiarities of a few oddball objects." And that adds an important clue to an already strong circumstantial case that planets are the rule rather than the exception in the Milky Way. It doesn't prove that there are extraterrestrials in the cosmos, but it does make their existence more plausible...
Clearly, they care plenty. This week on the Senate floor, amendments will be flying. On one side, Republican Senators Bob Packwood of Oregon and John McCain of Arizona will press to make the bill easier on the communications industry by limiting the government's authority to keep the Baby Bells from moving into long-distance service, by lifting price controls on small cable operators and by allowing broadcasters to own more television stations...
Opponents also charge that much of the Terrace's design will be no better than guesswork by architects from the master's school at Taliesin West in Arizona, who are supervising the construction. Wright completed only a handful of sketches for the Terrace's interior, so the project supervisors have had to imitate colors, textures and materials used by Wright in other designs of the 1950s. Says architectural historian Narciso Menocal: "It's like finding a 15-page synopsis of a Hawthorne novel and having someone else turn it into a 500-page book. Whose novel is that...