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Defoe wrote about Wild, and so did Fielding (The Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great). John Gay used him as the model for Peachum ("Impeach 'em") in his Beggar's Opera. The story can stand any amount of retelling, and Howson's is full of wonderful oddments: at Old Bailey in Wild's time, trials were conducted in the open air regardless of weather; the original Jenny Diver sat in church with false, gloved hands folded primly across her stomach, while her real ones picked adjacent purses. There are also some linguistic notes: "Rattling...
...petition states that Congress is given power in the Constitution to impeach and subsequently convict (both by two-thirds vote) the President for "high crimes and misdemeanors...
...unwarned suspect later takes the stand, his pretrial statements to the police can be used to impeach his courtroom testimony. In sharp dissent, Justice William J. Brennan argued that the effect of the decision is that police may now "freely interrogate an accused incommunicado" despite Miranda; the accused may then see his own careless words convict him "if he has the temerity to testify in his own defense." Brennan's argument failed to move Burger, who dismissed "the speculative possibility that impermissible police conduct will be encouraged...
...steamfitters and ironworkers, had warned against violence. About 3,800 cops, some of whom had blithely watched the earlier beatings, sealed off city hall from the demonstrators and patrolled the march. The mood was tense, not angry. Mayor John Lindsay was burned in effigy and denounced by many signs: IMPEACH THE RED MAYOR and, over a mock coffin, HERE LIES THE CITY OF NEW YORK BURIED BY COMMISSAR LINDSAY...
...sure, the aroused students are sticking to local issues. "When they mix in 'Impeach Nixon' and 'End the war,' " says one, "I bow out." Yet last week Alabama held a memorial service for the blacks killed at Jackson State. Amid demonstrations and arrests, epithets ("Liar," "Fascist pig") have been hurled at President Mathews...