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...tall man carrying a shopping bag stepped inside. It was Mikhail Stiglitz, Avital's brother, who is an Israeli army officer. The pilot had radioed ahead that Shcharansky, who was released from the labor camp in a threadbare suit of clothes, badly needed a pair of pants and a belt to hold them up. While the crowd waited, Shcharansky changed into a pair of gray trousers brought by his brother-in-law, then stepped out onto the tarmac...
...Crimson, with its first win in two full weeks under its belt, resumed play 20 minutes later against the Big Green of Dartmouth...
...stone, but then the skills of classic masonry are scarce these days. Ice harvesting, an ordinary annual ritual when St. Paul built its first palace, is at least as arcane. The lost arts have been revived: massive ice chunks were chainsawed from Lake Phalen, floated to an underwater conveyor belt, broken into blocks (21 in. by 2 ft. by 3 1/2 ft.), / shaved, sluiced down a long wooden chute, trimmed, plucked by a crane and set into place with a mortar of slushy snow...
...found dumped in an irrigation ditch behind her home, a pair of scissors embedded in her throat, her shorts and underpants slit open. Within hours police arrested Booker T. Hillery Jr., a local black ranch hand already on parole from an earlier rape conviction. Circumstantial physical evidence, including his belt and tire prints from his car, was found near the scene of the crime. Hillery insisted on his innocence, but a jury found him guilty of murder, and he was sentenced to death...
...frustrating case for us," complains Kings County District Attorney Robert Maline. "For a jury to base credibility on old court transcripts is difficult." As many as nine key witnesses may have died since the original trial. Others have moved away. Old pieces of evidence, like the belt, the scissors and the tire track photographs, will have to be dug out of storage. Worse, although the Supreme Court's Miranda decision was not handed down until four years after the killing, local rulings on its retroactive application may permit Hillery's attorney to exclude statements made by his client after...