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Stewart was caught in a simple lie, the evidence so compelling and her attorney's 20-minute defense testimony so curt--Martha's too smart to do this--that after five weeks of testimony, a jury of eight women and four men needed less than three days to deliberate. And much of that time was spent weighing the case against her co-defendant and former Merrill Lynch stockbroker, Peter Bacanovic. He was found guilty as well on four of five counts and almost certainly will see prison time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not A Good Thing For Martha | 3/15/2004 | See Source »

...Eastwood's melancholy Mystic River.) Movies like House spring from "the ancient tradition of telling heartbreakingly sad stories, but hugging each other afterward," he says. "Audiences can recognize themselves and their own doubts." He won't speak of any personal tragedy - a question about his youth yields only a curt pointer back to the movie. "My childhood had no exile, no struggle, no trauma like the Behranis," he says. Kingsley was born Krishna Bhanji, the son of a Kenyan-Indian doctor and an English actress, in Yorkshire. In a 1989 Daily Express interview, he said that growing up mixed-race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The King Of Tragedy | 2/22/2004 | See Source »

...batterymates were reporting to Fort Meyers, and in just a few weeks sportswriters coast-to-coast would be predicting that the scarlet hose were all seat to unseat the accursed Yankees in the AL East. Young Theo had had a helluva rookie Hot Stove season, what with adding Curt and Kevin, and we were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coasters, Big Games and Big Game | 2/21/2004 | See Source »

...student from the Republic of Georgia, he was arrested for felony sexual assault in January 2002 when his accuser, an aquaintance, alleged that he had pulled her into his room and raped her. A visit to his jail cell in the aftermath by a Harvard official was appropriately curt: withdraw, his visitor told him, or face a worse punishment from the GSE’s version of the Ad Board, the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, Zedginidze recalled...

Author: By Travis R. Kavulla, | Title: Rape and Non-rapists | 2/10/2004 | See Source »

...finally taken on the type of role he seems genetically engineered to play--man in loooove. In Cold Mountain, Anthony Minghella's captivating Civil War epic from the Charles Frazier book, Law embodies the cinematic romantic hero down to the chest hair. He plays Inman, a curt country carpenter who falls for the new preacher's sophisticated daughter (Nicole Kidman). They share perhaps six awkward conversations (his declaration of love: "It's like when you wake up and your ribs are bruised thinking so hard on somebody") and one kiss before he marches off. To get back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: One Cool Jude | 12/22/2003 | See Source »

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