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Timothy McVeigh’s execution approaches on May 16th under the presidency of George W. Bush who, as governor of Texas, oversaw the execution of 152 people, more than any other state governor in history. It is unlikely that members of the mob clamoring to watch McVeigh die will...

Author: By Konstantin P. Kakaes, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Stop the World, I Want to Get Off | 4/20/2001 | See Source »

Kertes may have helped with Markovic's arrest, since both appear to have been involved in different capacities in an assassination attempt on opposition leader Vuk Draskovic in 1999. Police are attempting to document who ordered that hit - in which a truck slammed into Draskovic's convoy on a Serbian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Song of the Insider | 4/16/2001 | See Source »

In 4 B.C., angry Jews, protesting the execution of students who had tried to remove a Roman eagle from the Temple decorations, threw stones down on their occupiers from the mount's porches and set off a citywide riot; eventually 2,000 rebels were crucified. In A.D. 26, the Roman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jerusalem At The Time Of Jesus | 4/16/2001 | See Source »

The connection that LHO makes to Harvard Square, although very successful in the physical sense, does not quite achieve the ironic goals of the adaptation. Although the production would like to confront its Harvard audience and its treatment of the poor, it fails to take full advantage of proximity of...

Author: By Desirree L. Lyle, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Something Old: House Opera Alive and, Well... | 4/13/2001 | See Source »

It is not too late to reconsider. Does this Bluebeard's castle of a culture, this cable-ready 24/7 spectacle of the untrammeled Super-Id, which electronically firehoses its children with every vicious fantasy it can conceive, really wish to have its more lurid capital cases turned into media extravaganzas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Slippery Slope to Public Executions? | 4/12/2001 | See Source »

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