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...take sole charge of Russia. Last week he did, dissolving the rebellious parliament, but his hard-line rivals did not slink off into the night. Now there are two Presidents, two Ministers of Defense, two Ministers of Security and two Ministers of the Interior. Two centers of government contend for power, one in the Kremlin and a second in Russia's White House, the seat of parliament. Both issued a flurry of orders and made separate appeals to Russia's 150 million people to rally in support of two competing visions of the future of the nation...
...trial is testing the limits of the so-called battered-child-syndrome defense. (A variant, the battered-wife defense, is sometimes used by women who kill abusive husbands.) The Menendez brothers contend that they killed their parents not to avenge years of sexual and emotional torture -- that would be no legal justification -- but in self-defense. Even though Jose and Kitty were sitting placidly watching television? Yes. The law sometimes recognizes self- defense pleas from people who are not under attack but who reasonably fear imminent death unless they get their potential assailants first. The battered- child-syndrome defense holds...
...convinced more than ever that they were in mortal danger. More important, while Lyle painted a menacing portrait of his father, he was less successful explaining why the brothers thought Kitty would have joined her husband in killing her sons. Some outside legal experts think the prosecution may successfully contend that the brothers killed Kitty primarily to eliminate any possibility of her identifying them as Jose's slayers -- allowing them to collect the $14 million inheritance...
...noise of jostling photographers and clacking shutters, the two combatants finally squared off last Tuesday on the stage of the Savoy Theater in London. In one corner, the challenger and clear crowd favorite, a pink- cheeked, brush-cut 28-year-old and the first native-born Briton ever to contend for the world title. In the other, the defending champ, an Armenian- born egoist, 30, with killer instincts and a reputation as the best warrior of all time. At stake: competitive pride and a purse of $2.6 million...
...Last year was so many `what ifs,'" Wheaton said. "I feel like we never played up to our potential. This year, I want to contend for the Ivy title. It's not always in our control, but I'm pretty optimistic...