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Robert Waller's novels, The Bridges of Madison County and Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend, are both at the top of the New York Times Best Seller list, as No. 1 and No. 2 respectively. That's not all they have in common...
Should American jurists bend the rules to accommodate foreign cultures? Can judges and juries draw reliable conclusions about what the rules in those cultures might really be? Most jurists recognize that ignorance of the law has never been -- and should not be -- a basis for full acquittal. Yet in determining charges before trial and in sentencing afterward, U.S. law has always taken into account a wide array of factors that might shed light on the responsibility of the accused. That might be a useful -- and defensible -- basis for a cultural defense, but only after some well-defined guidelines are developed...
...within one point of beating Notre Dame in South Bend. Amazing. But the Eagles had blown a 21-point lead. Ridiculous...
...wondered through the lot back to the car, my thoughts slowly turned to the other game on this cold fall afternoon. The one in South Bend, Indiana--home of Notre Dame football, and thousands of football memories...
...Ciby 2000 (pronounced, in French, C.B. De Mille), scored by English composer Michael Nyman, and stars some unlikely actors: Georgia's Holly Hunter and Brooklyn's Harvey Keitel join New Zealand's Sam Neill. Campion has also honed her style beyond mannerism; now the desaturated colors and oblique angles bend to serve the story. And a plangent story it is, with a typical Campion heroine: the outsider woman, the renegade from convention, as viewed from a treetop, where only God dares judge...