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...best artist in Manhattan or to theorize in his lofty, jejune way. (One of his latest conclusions is that American painters have never manifested "the will to make a masterpiece"--which would have come as news to Jackson Pollock, to say nothing of the thundering landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church.) But whatever his merits as a thinker, as an entrepreneur Currin is doing fine. With his wife Rachel Feinstein, a sculptor whose high forehead and pert chin turn up repeatedly in his work, he's a regular on the art-world party scene, working up press coverage and collector interest...
OVERTURNED. The 1983 conviction of EDWIN WILSON, 75, former CIA officer; after a federal judge ruled that prosecutors used false testimony to hide the fact that the CIA had employed him to sell 20 tons of plastic explosives to Libya in the largest illegal weapons deal in U.S. history; in Houston. Wilson is serving 52 years on three separate convictions--including one for attempted murder--but could be eligible for parole this year...
...hard to have a death penalty and make sure only the guilty receive it? Because of cases like The State of Texas v. Delamora. On Feb. 15, 2001, Travis County sheriff's deputy Keith Ruiz was shot and killed while prying open the door to Edwin Delamora's trailer. Ruiz had gone with members of the Capital Area Narcotics Task Force to arrest Delamora on charges of selling methamphetamine. Frightened, Delamora fired his 9-mm pistol through a window in his front door. Prosecutors said the bullet hit Ruiz in the aorta, killing him. Delamora claimed he fired because...
Neither Hornstine nor a spokesperson for the family returned The Crimson’s calls for comment yesterday, and her lawyer, Edwin J. Jacobs, refused to comment when reached by phone...
...DIED. EDWIN STARR, 61, burly Motown soul singer; of a heart attack; at his home in Nottingham, England. The Nashville native gained fame with hits such as Agent Double-O Soul, but will be best remembered for his Grammy-winning 1970 hit War, which included the lyrics "War, what is it good for?/Absolutely nothing...