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...both Irvings share a delight in the grotesque, and Ichabod Crane is to Halloween, after all, what Scrooge is to Christmas. This is must mid' o' the night reading, a story you can feel down deep in your Brom bones...
...declassified but an impressive return for the national symbol. Unfortunately not all protected species can be coaxed into bouncing back. Despite government protection, there are no known California condors left in the wild; the remaining 27 are in captivity. And in 70 years of trying to save the whooping crane, the population has grown from a low of 15, in 1941, to just 170 birds. Nor can deletions from the endangered list begin to keep pace with the new additions. At the moment, 449 animal and plant species remain listed in the U.S.; 37 of them were added...
That was the scene of shouting and shoving outside a Manhattan courtroom last week at the end of what Judge Stephen Crane called the "most difficult case of our time." After four days of deliberations, a jury of ten whites and two blacks had just acquitted Bernhard Goetz of all but one relatively minor charge in the 1984 shooting of four black youths who Goetz said had threatened him on a subway train...
Cabey was physically unable to testify, and Allen took the Fifth Amendment, but the most important non-witness was Ramseur, who bristled under Slotnick's questions about his criminal record, particularly his conviction for the rape of a pregnant woman. When Ramseur finally refused to answer any more questions, Crane sentenced him to six months in jail for contempt. Crane ordered all of Ramseur's testimony stricken, but his appearance undoubtedly had its effect on the jury. "He had so much pent-up rage," Juror Serpe told the New York Daily News. "He reminded me of a caged animal...
...David Crane...