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Wellesley Dean of Students Molly S. Campbellsaid she hopes and expects that Harvard willpunish De Voe, Cleary, and Oehmler, even thoughthe courts did not convict them...
...Governor and two former Pentagon officials had reason to celebrate last week as juries declined to convict them of white-collar crimes. Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards declared himself a winner after a New Orleans jury deadlocked on racketeering and fraud charges related to a hospital investment scheme that netted Edwards $1.9 million between terms as Governor. A mistrial was declared ^ after seven days of deliberation because two jurors held out for conviction on most of the 50 counts. In New York, Thomas Reed, a former Air Force Secretary and Reagan assistant, was acquitted of profiting in the stock market through...
...evidence was therefore legally gathered, they contended, and should be admissible even in his auto-theft trial. But Brennan's majority opinion declared that Moulton had been led into making statements to a police agent without the presence of his lawyer. So those statements could not be used to convict him of any crime with which he was already charged, although they could serve as evidence to convict him of other crimes. In dissent, Chief Justice Warren Burger complained that the court's decision created a new "right" only for offenders who persisted in criminal activity even while under indictment...
...case was the first in which the U.S. Government successfully used espionage statutes to convict an individual for providing classified information to the press rather than to a foreign power. "This will have a chilling effect on public discussion of important military matters," said Tony Rood, a member of Morison's defense team. Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Schatzow disagreed. But he said he does hope the verdict will cut off leaks at their source: Government employees...
Colm Wilkinson and Roger Allam carry the show as Jean Valjean, the released convict seeking to escape his past, and Javert, the righteous police inspector who hounds him across France for nearly two decades. Patti LuPone, an American who won a 1980 Tony Award for her starring role in Evita, has powerful scenes as an unwed mother who in desperation becomes a prostitute. The real star, however, is Nunn's staging. He sometimes spoils one effect with the hasty arrival of the next, but his conceptions are clear and simple. Almost every manifestation of evil, from Valjean's skulking emergence...