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...beginning, during the pretrial proceedings, Timothy McVeigh would try to greet Beth Wilkinson with a smile and a hello, a tactic he used with other people in court. Each time, however, she would shoot back a cold glare. The federal prosecutor would allow no attempts at cordiality to mitigate her mission: to convict McVeigh and get him sentenced to death. Last week, after his defense had presented parental pleas for mercy, Wilkinson's words thundered through the courtroom, demanding the life of the convicted Oklahoma City bomber. "All of us can feel compassion for his parents, but they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SMILE OF A KILLER | 6/23/1997 | See Source »

...mother who gave birth at 62 after her only son was killed in a motorcycle accident, are going to undertake 2 a.m. feedings and toilet training in their seventh decade. There aren't going to be many such mothers, but if medicine can help make it so, why not greet them with the same joy accorded Tony Randall, who appeared on David Letterman the same day news about the California mother broke. He had just had his first child at 77, without any fear that a doctor could tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE 2,000-YEAR-OLD MOM | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

...hear the same message at Commencement, and yet I do not greet it with apprehension. It is true, however, that the concert had different aims than would a Commencement speech; Christianity was broached, as Finer correctly points out, and in all likelihood that was the point of the staging of the concert...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christianity Merits Equal Standing in Free Market of Ideas | 4/17/1997 | See Source »

...knock on the sliding window each Tuesday morning, chances are that Gillette will be there to greet...

Author: By Georgia N. Alexakis, | Title: Alumnus Helps Legions of Tourists Find Their Way | 3/19/1997 | See Source »

...talking about, unless, of course, you are one of those in need. Home training (also known as common courtesy, respectability, manners and decency) is that basic, minimal level of civility upon which most constructive human interaction is based. Home training teaches us to say hello to people who greet us, not to yell in church or pick our noses in public or let the door slam behind us in someone's face. But may be these concepts are too trivial for the Harvard student who is busy becoming a future leader. After all, company executives, mayors and doctors will never...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: Manners and Other Trivial Things | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

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