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The Atlantic editor who accepted this schmaltz as authentic was Ellery Sedgwick, then 56. One of the most respected men of letters of his day, he was married to a Cabot and had graduated from Groton and Harvard. The conspirator who befuddled his judgment was Wilma Frances Minor, then 42...
Of the 20 or so men who served prison terms for their Watergate crimes, uncooperative G. Gordon Liddy did by far the longest stretch (52 months). Only four others served as long as a year: E. Howard Hunt, former Attorney General John Mitchell and Presidential Aides H.R. Haldeman and John...
Alone, it's not an entirely satisfying explanation. You still wonder why it always seems to be Dershowitz who had to take it upon himself to keep the government honest by freeing criminals. He has, after all, challenged the government as a lawyer of last resort in many controversial cases...
Prince Felix Yusupov believed he was saving Holy Russia too, when, after midnight on Dec. 17, 1916, he lured Rasputin to his palace and fed him cream cakes laced with cyanide. When the poison failed to take effect, the prince shot him. Left for dead on the floor, Rasputin opened...
William Kennedy, the U.S. Attorney in San Diego, was just trying to do his job. When Kennedy accepted the presidential appointment last November, he found himself heir to a 14-month investigation of a Mexican gang that was stealing cars in California and taking them back across the border. Twenty...