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Feliciano D. Vera '98 wears one of the more disturbing shirts I've seen. It reads, "I was kidnapped, robbed, and molested by Danny Ray Horning, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt" above a picture of the convict. "Danny Ray Horning," he explains, "was on the lam [on the run--if you knew this, disregard the translation] in '93 for two months in Arizona. It was the largest manhunt in Arizona history." In response to why he sports Horning's mug shot on his chest, he says, "I wear it to annoy people and attract random questions...
...have recovered bad memories. They have recalled being raped, being sexually abused or even seeing someone killed. And in most cases, they did not remember the events for decades after the crimes were supposed to have taken place. A large number of juries have believed these stories-enough to convict two men of murder and award millions of dollars in damages to victims. But some scientists have challenged the validity of repressed memories, arguing that many of these recollections are false creations, born of patients' suggestibility and their therapists' leading questions...
Club Dead is essentially a role-playing game in the context of a who-done-it mystery. The setting is the year 2024; the main character is Sam Frost, a convict addicted to "V," an illegal form of virtual reality. Sam is hired to investigate a series of mysterious deaths at a posh resort where the rich and famous come for illicit "V" experiences. Sam is given four days to solve the mystery...
Three years ago, he ruled that the procedure used by the Senate to convict Federal Judge Alcee Hastings was unconstitutional. A few months later, the Supreme Court shot down his theory when it ruled in a similar case that judges had no power to oversee impeachments. Many antitrust lawyers expect his Microsoft ruling to get the same brush-off from a higher court. But if Sporkin was overreaching, he may also have been correct in his judgment that the original settlement let the computer giant off too easily. It won't be the first time he's proved that loose...
...police didn't have and didn't need any physical evidence to convict Bobby Earl, because they had his taped confession. Never mind that Bobby confessed only after twenty-two hours of beatings with hands, feet and phonebooks. Never mind that, when the beatings didn't work, the police chief played a game of Russian roulette with his gun in the suspect's mouth...