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...emotions rested on the Elian Gonzalez appeal hearing, so before donning his robe he warned the crowd gathered inside the Atlanta courtroom of two things: No outbursts of emotion would be tolerated; and the audience shouldn't impute opinions from the judges' questions, since justices often play devil's advocate when hearing an appeal. Still, there was little surprise that the Miami family appeared a little muted after the 90 minutes of oral argument. "I think they expected that their argument that a six-year-old can seek political asylum would have been more sympathetically received by the court," says...
...play "A Man For All Seasons," Thomas More's son-in-law tells More that he would cut down all the laws in England to get the devil. More replies that he would give the devil himself the benefit of law for his own safety's sake--for after the laws were felled, nothing could withstand the winds that would howl, there being no place left to hide. The greatest casualty in the war on drugs has been chipping away of the forest of laws that represent our civil liberties. And no liberty has been pinched tighter than that against...
...most entertaining and imaginative issue. One of your articles addressed the question "Will We Discover Another Universe?" I am a big believer in alternate universes as an explanation for lost items. Somewhere in a parallel universe, another Alan Perlman is scratching his head and wondering why the devil he suddenly has three identical brown belts and two CDs of Bill Evans at the Village Vanguard. ALAN M. PERLMAN Highland Park...
...states, a man who pays cash for houses and automobiles, who keeps up to $500,000 lying around the house and conducts business meetings in restaurant bathrooms is liable to end up having his meals slid under a door. But Louisiana, a gift from God if not from the devil, is not most states. And so the federal corruption trial of former Governor Edwin Edwards is a delicious feast not just for the fly-on-the-wall look at the latest great rogue in American politics, but also because even if he's guilty, many Louisianans are pulling...
...fields. Near Dulles Airport, it's convenient for people working at the growing number of dotcoms and other businesses in the rapidly expanding area. At the end of their stay, dogs take home a Club Pet Camper Card, rating them as Happy Camper, Paw-fect Pet or Little Devil. Fred could get all three. (Telephone...