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...international arena as this skate-off between Harding and Kerrigan at the Winter Games. Lately, the public has been denied closure in other morality tales: neither Bobbitt will serve time; California may never be able to cobble together a jury sufficiently unaffected by victim empathy to convict the Menendez brothers; Buffalo is unlikely to ever get another chance to beat Dallas...
Local and federal officials last week arrested a man who may be linked to the Polly Klaas kidnapping case. Klaas, 12, was abducted from her home in Petaluma, California, during a slumber party two months ago. The suspect, an ex-convict arrested for a parole violation, resembles the description given to police by Klaas' friends. The girl has not yet been found...
...convict Butch Haynes (Costner) has just escaped from prison with his partner, who immediately breaks into someone's home to stock up on provisions. In the ensuing struggle, Haynes takes the mother's eight-year-old son, Philip (T.J. Lowther), as a hostage, and they're off to hit the road. Haynes cleanly commits what we later learn is his second and final murder, and the little boy soon learns where he must turn his loyalties. Their relationship is quickly transformed from captor/captee, to mutual symbiosis for practical survival, to a mentor/mentee on the facts of life, to something that...
After a string of B-grade movies with roles as mediocre heroes, Kevin Costner has once again proven his reputation as as a first-rate performer. He portrays a likeable convict, one who deals with people with ease, handles every tight situation as if it were routine, and is charming through this very nonchalance and self-assuredness...
Unless Lorena strikes a plea bargain, prosecutors, who relied on her testimony in trying John, will have to cast him as a star witness to try to convict Lorena. Ironically, pros ecutor Paul Ebert's failure to convict John will make this easier, since it weakens her claim that her act was justified. Dur ing his closing argument last week, Ebert signaled that he could parcel out his disdain with an even hand: "You might say perhaps that these two people deserve each other...