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...father, a wholesale grocer, committed suicide when Alger was two; a sister, Mary, also killed herself. Yet Hiss's advancement in life seemed blessed. After graduating with honors from Johns Hopkins University, Hiss at Harvard Law School was befriended by Professor Felix Frankfurter, who arranged for his protege to clerk for Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. Hiss worked for law firms in Boston and on Wall Street, and spent a dozen years in government, including stints at the Agriculture, Justice and State departments. By 1945 he was an adviser to Franklin Roosevelt at the Yalta Conference; later that year...
...enthusiastically proclaimed. To ambitious city dwellers in Boston and Albany, and London and Cracow, it all made glorious sense. The 320 acres of government land were there for the taking, free to anyone enterprising enough to pay a $22 filing fee and build fences. Hard work would turn a clerk into a landowning patriarch...
...clerk at the Litchfield Superior Court said Driscoll began serving his sentence immediately at the Walker Reception Center in Suffield, CT. He will remain there for about four to six weeks, until it is determined at what type of facility he should serve the rest of the sentence...
...that reason, cases like Joe Payne's will probably become more common. Originally incarcerated for killing a store clerk, he claims to have been in the shower when Dunford was killed. Several eyewitnesses have since supported his claim and fingered one Robert Smith as the killer. The reason they didn't speak up at his trial, they later said, was that they figured that the worst that could befall Payne was a second life sentence. "[It seemed like] a white guy's problem," Eddie Phillips, who is black, later said. But when Payne got death, "to me it became...
...begin with. But in Israel, where the Holocaust is living memory, they are abominable. The daily Yediot Aharonot created a stir as it revealed the use of the appellation by a boutique belonging to the trendy Tel Aviv chain Grosso Modo. To reporter Sigalit Shahor's astonishment, a clerk boasted, "It is high quality and doesn't get dirty--all the boots worn by the Nazis in World War II were made of this material." One journalist wrote, "Today we sell Nazi black, tomorrow it can be SS green, and the day after Hitler brown...Good Lord, what have...