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Republican Gov. George Pataki used the pens of two slain police officers to sign legislation making New York the 38th state with a death penalty. Today's signing ceremony was a major victory for the state legislature, which had 18 straight death penalty bills vetoed by Democratic governors Hugh Carey and Mario Cuomo, who was defeated by Pataki in November. The law, which will take effect in September, defines about a dozen offenses punishable by lethal injection, including murders of on-duty cops. It does not apply to juveniles or the mentally disabled. "This law alone won't stop crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: N.Y. ENACTS DEATH PENALTY | 3/7/1995 | See Source »

...slabs pointing out that he could not walk unaided after his 1921 polio attack. "Not sufficient," says Michael Deland, a board member of the National Organization on Disability, who is confined to a wheelchair. "F.D.R.'s disability was simply too central to his very being." Hugh Gallagher, author of F.D.R.'s Splendid Deception, a book detailing how Roosevelt veiled his disability (only two pictures of him in a wheelchair are among the 125,000 in the Roosevelt library), calls the plans "historically inaccurate." Alan Reich, president of the N.O.D., which claims to reflect the feelings of almost 50 million disabled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROOSEVELT: WHERE'S HIS WHEELCHAIR? | 3/6/1995 | See Source »

...movie chronicles the experiences of 10-year-old Fiona (Jeni Courtney) who, at the death of her mother, has come to live with her grandparents Hugh (Mick Lally) and Tess (Eileen Colgan). Between her grandparents and her cousins, Fiona is imbued with a heavy dosage of family myths. She is told about the disappearance of her brother, Jamie, when his cradle floated out to sea. She learns about her great-grandmother, a Selkie, who was half-human, half-seal. All this takes place on the lost family island, Roan Inish...

Author: By Joyelle H. Mcsweeney, | Title: Fairy Tale Made Real on Sayles' 'Inish' Isle | 3/3/1995 | See Source »

...this reverie, George falls in love with Maire, who returns his affection even though she is engaged to Hugh's older son, Manus (Rob Campbell). These complications propel the characters towards the play's ambiguous conclusion...

Author: By Marc R. Talusan, | Title: Broadway-Bound Translations Gets Lost in Its Stars | 2/23/1995 | See Source »

Dennehy is also unconvincing as Hugh, a brooding Lear figure who mourns the destruction of his community. Partly because of Friel's flimsy dialogue, Hugh's appeals lack the weight of his pivotal role in the play as the last stand against the encroaching English language...

Author: By Marc R. Talusan, | Title: Broadway-Bound Translations Gets Lost in Its Stars | 2/23/1995 | See Source »

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