Word: guilt
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...heart of the argument is the Fifth Amendment guarantee that "no person shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself." That guarantee establishes a system of justice based on accusation, not inquisition. In essence, it commands Government to prove guilt by independent evidence, not by coercing the proof out of the defendant's own mouth. So absolute is the privilege against self-incrimination that the defendant need not even take the stand. But what of police interrogation-the preliminary stage at which a suspect is pressed to make the very confession that may convict...
Mistresses & Malaria. The legend goes like this. Alexander, never very stable, was haunted by the memory of his murdered father, Paul I, and half-crazed by a sense of guilt for Napoleon's burning of Moscow. A handsome rakehell, Alexander had latterly fallen under the influence of Baroness Barbara Juliana von Kriüdener, a Baltic Billy Sunday who converted the Czar into a rabid religious mystic. Thus in 1825 he decided to change his life...
Last week 3,500 delegates of the North Carolina Baptist Convention condemned the Ku Klux Klan and its "perverted use of the Christian Cross." The week before, the Baptists of Virginia passed a resolution acknowledging "before God our partnership of guilt in the long, dark night of injustice and discrimination," and resolved that all Virginia Baptist congregations be encouraged to organize local Christian Life Commissions...
What the barrage of acrimony was in danger of obscuring was the achievement brought off by Brown and the trustees while together in harness. Sprawling Los Angeles has long suffered from the guilt of cultural deprivation; it felt overshadowed by San Francisco, which boasts an opera house and no fewer than three museums. But in the span of seven years, a surge of civic unity has given Los Angeles a new $33.5 million music center and, 61 miles away, the terraced pavilions of the $12 million art museum. Los Angeles has become the U.S.'s second art capital...
...vulgarity, and she displays poetic gifts approaching genius when she dwells lovingly on the sights and sounds of Dublin or describes the peculiar quality of Irish rain. But as usual, she comes a cropper with her characters. They are all, it seems, sexually confused, tortured by unexplained feelings of guilt, and totally ineffectual and unbelievable as human beings. An improbable seduction scene, which is the high point of the book, has all the furtive comings and goings but none of the hilarity of a French farce...