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...dispute wound up in a Manhattan courtroom last week and on Court TV and provided some entertainment for the winter-weary. Newspapers printed excerpts from Collins' spurned fiction ("'Don't call me your little cabbage,' she said savagely. 'I'm nobody's cabbage.'"), along with careful descriptions of her clothing. While grilling Evans, the actress's lawyer harked back, perhaps unintentionally, to a precept set forth in Aristotle's Poetics: "She turned in--however good, however bad--a story that had a beginning, a middle and an end, a completed manuscript?" After a pause, Evans said...
...trouble with the federal government. It doesn't matter that their e-mail was originally a private message to friends; the fact that it spread so rapidly, unknown to them, could easily have brought the message to the hands of a minor--and the misogynistic Cornellians to a courtroom. Although their message was offensive, it was protected under the First Amendment. As extensive users of electronic communication, Harvard and other college communities are especially affected by this...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Dressed in black, Hillary Clinton marched into a Washington courtroom at midday Friday to face questions about her role in Whitewater. "I'm going to tell them everything I know, with the hope of helping them with their investigation," the First Lady told the mass of reporters gathered outside. Four grueling hours later, she reappeared to say that she had told the jury everything she knew and was now going home. For the Clintons, burned in the past by suspicions they weren't telling the whole truth about Whitewater, TIME's J.F.O. McAllister says the best strategy...
...YORK CITY: Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman and nine of his followers were sentenced to lengthy jail terms in a Manhattan courtroom today following their October convictions for conspiring to blow up several New York landmarks, including the United Nations and the Lincoln and Holland tunnels. "This case is nothing but an extension of the American war against Islam," Abdel-Rahman told U.S. District Judge Michael Mukasey through an interpreter. The 57-year-old Egyptian faces a mandatory life sentence for a separate conviction for plotting to kill Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. TIME's William Dowell reports: "Because the case...
HOUSTON: Juan Garcia Abrego, Mexico's second most powerful drug lord, calmly stood in a Houston courtroom today and listened as a 20-count indictment was read against him. Abrego, one of the FBI's ten most wanted fugitives, was arrested by Mexican authorities Sunday after a lengthy manhunt, and was turned over the next day to U.S. officials. Latin American bureau chief Laura Lopez reports: "From the perspective of the U.S., Abrego's arrest and deportation is very positive. Relations between the two countries had begun to sour recently amid speculation about government corruption and complicity in the drug...