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An experienced defense team might have poked holes through the prosecution's case. But Coleman was a poor coal miner, with no spare cash to hire an attorney. His court-appointed lawyer, Terry Jordan, was just two years out of law school and had tried only one murder case. In...
The fact that voters still demand these virtues in a leader is a confession, however backhanded, that they respect the very values they violate in their own lives. The situation thus created is both salutary and absurd. And, for the candidates, more than a little cruel. Still, they have only...
Ashe acquiesced to the inevitable. He made the TV rounds in the days after his AIDS announcement, and he kept his dignity -- not easy in an exercise in which the line between richly cartooned gossip and basic responsible journalism (who-what-when-where-how) all but dissolves. Television has a...
The worst self-inflicted wound was Clinton's marijuana confession. The damage flowed less from the admission than from the way Clinton phrased it. In the past, when asked if he had ever used drugs, Clinton replied that he had never broken any state or federal laws. Only when a...
That theory isn't new, but Crenshaw's account contains a vivid anecdote that will no doubt be seized upon by those who argue that there was a government conspiracy. When Oswald, shot by Jack Ruby, wound up at Parkland, Crenshaw noted the presence of a heavyset armed man in...