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...defense in the World Trade Center case could secure a mistrial on the basis that Salem's tapes contain potentially helpful evidence and should have been handed over months ago instead of last week, after excerpts and summaries appeared in the press. Prosecutors have taken weeks to establish how heinous the bombing was; last week the case reached its 58th witness without any testimony directly linking the defendants to the bomb. This strategy could be blunted if the jury comes to believe that the U.S. government had the opportunity to forestall the bombing. While that would not make the defendants...
...show biz is a part of every scandal. No sexual crime is so disturbing, no career blackmail so heinous, that it cannot be turned into career opportunities and comic mulch. Jackson had not been charged with so much as laying a glove on the boy, yet respected network news divisions were vying with tabloid TV to get the hot skinny. On CBS, This Morning co-anchor Paula Zahn interviewed a "reporter" for the sleaze show Hard Copy. In Britain the rumor rags were resplendent: sicko jacko, cried Thursday's Daily Star ("The Newspaper That Cares"); wacko jacko screamed...
...This is how Harvard treats people who use poison gas. This is how Harvard treats people who serve under Nazis," says Mullican. "Yet [the actions] of the Confederate soldiers are deemed by Harvard to be so heinous that they are excluded from University memory forever...
...blame, for it is merely a part of a larger national trend to relieve individuals of responsibility for any immoral act by blaming anyone but the perpetrator. The message is being blasted loud and clear from the stages of television talk shows and 12-step help groups; heinous acts of violence and depravity are not to be judged as stand-alone crimes, but rather in the larger context of the possible failings of an individual's relationships with others and with society. And this phenomenon is not limited to criminals whose childhood is in the recent past; celebrated killers like...
With the imminent retirement of Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White, a group of extremists on both sides of the increasingly hostile abortion battle and those in a number of other visceral debates are preparing to commit a crime just as heinous--the murder of the federal judicial selection process...