Word: earls
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...Clinton must really have it in for Janet Reno. Why else would the President saddle the Attorney General with the thankless task of reviewing "new evidence" presented by the family of Martin Luther King Jr. about his assassination 30 years ago? The King family claims that convicted assassin James Earl Ray, who died last week, was just a fall guy caught up in a sweeping conspiracy that included then President Lyndon Johnson, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, J. Edgar Hoover, several army units, organized crime figures, the owner of a Memphis diner and, one presumes, space aliens. Talk about...
...rule tend to have rosier outcomes than real life, Pfizer reported a 60%-to-80% success rate, depending on the dosage (compared with a 24% success rate for placebos). The anecdotal evidence is even more compelling, if one can put up with a certain amount of crowing. Earl Macklin, a 59-year-old security guard in Chicago, has suffered from impotence on and off for 10 years as a result of diabetes. The first two times he tried Viagra, it produced minimal results; the third time he was able to have intercourse with his girlfriend for the first time...
DIED. JAMES EARL RAY, 70, criminal who confessed to killing Martin Luther King Jr.; of liver failure caused by chronic hepatitis; in Nashville, Tenn. After an international manhunt following the assassination, Ray was captured in England. Three days after pleading guilty to the killing, Ray performed one of criminology's most famous about-faces, protesting his innocence for the remainder of his 99-year sentence. His prison term was marked by botched jailbreaks and his steady insistence that he had only been the fall guy in a larger conspiracy to slay King, a claim that received the unlikely backing...
Princess Diana's brother has written to the trustees of her memorial fund, asking them to wind up the charity because he believes it is degrading Diana's name, the Times of London reports. Earl Spencer "fears the fund is never going to stop, and the idea of it going on and on, making money out of the princess's name, is certainly not what she would have wanted," the Times quoted an unnamed Spencer aide as saying. The newspaper reported that Spencer has asked the nine trustees to fix a date to stop taking donations for the fund...
...James Earl Ray will face his final judgment without ever getting his day in court. Ray, 70, died this morning of complications arising from cirrhosis of the liver, proclaiming to the end his innocence in the slaying of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The King family was Ray?s most powerful ally in his quest to reopen the case -- only last week Coretta Scott King and Dexter King met with Attorney General Janet Reno to press for a review of the evidence...