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Before the jury filed in just prior to 8 p.m. on Saturday, Circuit Judge William Howard admonished the spectators and participants not to show any emotion. It seemed an impossible request, given the passion and compassion aroused by the case. Yet when June Miller, the Union County, South Carolina, clerk of court, read "guilty of murder" on the first count, the courtroom froze as if a tableau. Only Susan Smith seemed to move, shuddering at what had just been said and was about to be said again. "Guilty of murder," said the clerk on the second count...
...annoyances remain. An assistant manager seemed vaguely huffy when Martinez asked for help finding cough drops. The clerk assigned to the task was polite but, Martinez confided, "sometimes they just take my [walking] stick and pull me along...
Twelve days after the epic collapse of a 500-store complex in Seoul, rescue workers came upon Yoo Ji-hwan, a surprisingly healthy 19-year-old sales clerk who had survived under the mountain of rubble on drippings of rainwater and a whole lot of moxie. Yoo was dragged from a dark pocket not far from where a 21-year-old man was pulled out alive on Sunday. (At least 24 others survived; 219 were killed.) Her mother screamed deliriously from the rescue site, "She is alive! She is alive!" and then broke down in tears. "I thought that...
...specialist -- the equivalent of a sergeant -- with a G-2, or security, section of a peacetime Reserve unit, there would have been little call for the arcane arts he had learned. A soldier in the current equivalent of his unit assesses Koernke's position as that of "a glorified clerk," concerned mostly with processing security clearances...
Also reported were the salaries of VerneSedlacek, treasurer, who earned $771,685, a 36percent raise, and Michael Thomis, clerk, whoearned $238,570, a 45 percent...