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Most shocking is the evidence the defense never presented. A few days after the murder, Keester Shortridge, who lived near the McCoys, found in the back of his truck a plastic bag stuffed with blood-soaked lilac sheets, two Van Heusen cowboy shirts and a pair of scissors. Instead of calling the police, Shortridge buried the bag in a landfill. A few weeks ago, Jordan signed an affidavit stating that he too knew about Shortridge's discovery of the sheets prior to the trial. "I considered the information useless," he stated. Under the Supreme Court's current interpretation of habeas...
...Peter J. Gomes and Bill Hudnut, former mayor of Indianapolis, discussed the delicate nature of the relationship between politics and religion at a brown bag lunch at the Kennedy School Friday...
...wall, and somewhere under this tumulus of pedantry, is a minor artist with some distinctly good moments and a reliable bag of tricks, whose work can be enjoyed on its own terms without loading it with significance. All his paintings in the show -- with one exception, an inertly sentimental picture of a small black boy in a paper hat -- are still lifes. He was not interested in figures and had no feel for the human face. The best of Harnett is, so to speak, the weak populist end of the best strain in 19th century American art: its adherence...
Americana: Harris' last meal was two large pizzas, a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken, a six-pack of Pepsi, a bag of jelly beans, a pack of Camel cigarettes. Junk food was a sort of surreal motif in the case. In 1978 Harris murdered two teenage boys in order to steal their car for a bank robbery, and, having killed them, he finished the burgers they had been eating. (My theory is that Harris would be alive today if he had not eaten the burgers. That detail must have struck the jurors as the cool, novelistic touch of Satan...
...GATHER FURTHER EVIDENCE that the bomb was not contained in an unaccompanied bag from Malta, Pan Am lawyer Shaughnessy recently interviewed under oath 20 officials who were in Malta on Dec. 21, 1988, including the airport security commander, the bomb-disposal engineer who inspected all the baggage, the general manager of ground operations of Air Malta, the head loader of Flight 180 and the three check-in agents. Their records showed that no unaccompanied suitcases were put aboard the flight, and some of the staff Shaughnessy interviewed are prepared to testify under oath that there was no bag that...