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...father of seven claims he has dementia and prostate cancer, and yesterday he gingerly took a seat in the witness box of the Superior Court after greeting his accused son with a kiss on the cheek. Michael mouthed the words "I love you." Skakel Senior said that he did recall driving home from a hunting trip after murder. "The house was full but I don't remember any of the names of the people who were there." In fact, he returned to a chaotic scene of police, reporters and lawyers. He had then instructed live-in tutor Kenneth Littleton...
...contend with one another, do ye endeavor to compose the matter between them," he recited, rocking back and forth as an aid to memory. Abdullah stumbled, and Wafa Franji, a teacher of the Koran herself, told him, "It's a little weak, Abdullah." The boy kissed her on the cheek. "This afternoon I'll recite it for you perfectly," he said, and he went off to school...
...Doughty's soliloquy, but as he plays, MacDowell simultaneously shrivels and blooms: Kate realizes that this kid means more to her than a quick roll in the churchyard--he is the ardent love she had not known she was missing. The happiness and pain send a tear down her cheek...
DIED. ROY HUGGINS, 87, pioneering writer-producer of popular TV series such as Maverick, The Fugitive and The Rockford Files; in Santa Monica, Calif. Huggins' dramas were innovative in style and tone: Maverick (1957-62) took a tongue-in-cheek approach to the popular western genre, while The Fugitive (1963-67) drew huge ratings for the finale of its four-year saga of Dr. Richard Kimble, a man wrongly accused of murdering his wife...
...called polymerase chain reaction (PCR). It takes would-or-would-not-be fathers only a phone call, an e-mail or a quick visit to the local pharmacy to get the kit containing test tubes and sterile cotton-wool sticks for swabbing the inside of a child's cheek. The subsequent analysis, done by the various DNA labs, takes three to 10 days...