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...share information with Congress and the State Department suggesting that Alpirez, once an agency informant, had been involved in two ugly, politically explosive murders in 1990 and 1992, and in fact the CIA had paid him $44,000 even after linking him to the first death. (Alpirez denies any guilt.) Torricelli said the mess was consistent with CIA support of some of the most blood-drenched elements in Guatemala's armed forces, which have killed more than 100,000 fellow citizens in the past 30 years. He intimated that the National Security Agency and the Army had also engaged...
...business of the courts to determine guilt and hand out punishment, but it's up to the rest of us to try to figure out what each sensational murder trial has to say about our culture and times--that is, about the rest of us. O.J. forced us to ponder the issue of domestic violence, with side trips into Hollywood decadence and the arrogance of male athletes. In the Susan Smith case, though, no one has come up with any grand themes other than mental illness and "evil"--both of which are ways of saying, "This is so unthinkable that...
...have the range, the formal toughness or the breadth of human curiosity for that. Yet sometimes he approached them, as in his finest portrait, his 1872-73 study of the Victorian sage Thomas Carlyle. When he sat for Whistler, Carlyle was 78 and heavy with fame, depression and guilt. All this is conveyed in the disturbed but massive black profile of the coat and in the tenderness of Whistler's treatment of the face...
...metal to stock an S&M boutique. But he's just a soldier for hire, or a star looking for his next project. Dredd's warped mirror image is a renegade named Rico (Armand Assante), as dangerous to Dredd as the next action film on the release schedule. "Guilt and innocence--it's a matter of timing," Rico says. He could be describing the difference between summer hit and flop...
...trial, people with limited financial resources stand a good chance of being convicted, even if innocent. Just as the winner of a formal debate is the better debater and is not necessarily the one whose position represents the truth, it seems that American justice depends less on truth and guilt or innocence than on the skills of the litigators. Henry Krochmal Windsor, Connecticut...