Word: jr
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Does your dad [William F. Buckley Jr.] stammer like that at home, or is it totally affected...
...legal expertise. "If I looked inept, I was--in law. But I'm articulate in English." Though peppered with objections, he nevertheless turned his closing arguments into personal testimony on euthanasia and on his crusade. Comparing himself to Rosa Parks on the bus and to Martin Luther King Jr., Kevorkian told the jury that "there are certain acts that by sheer common sense are not crimes. Honestly now, do you see what [the prosecution] calls a killer? If you do, then you must convict. If you don't think I'm a criminal, then you must acquit." Thirteen hours...
...itself thematically. The first segment, grandiloquently titled "Heaven and Earth," spends an hour chronicling Charles Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic, and a second hour examining the era of space exploration. Another segment gives us a picture of America's rebellious spirit through the stories of Martin Luther King Jr. and Elvis Presley. A particularly affecting installment, airing on April 3, depicts America as an imperfect global paterfamilias, and looks at the country's efforts to preserve democracy in the Great War at the beginning of the century and again, ambiguously, in Vietnam later on. Pairing these two especially gruesome...
DIED. CAL RIPKEN SR., 63, sharp-tongued veteran baseball manager and the only coach to have managed two of his sons, Cal Jr. and Billy, on the same team; of lung cancer; in Aberdeen, Md. Ripken spent 36 years with the Baltimore Orioles in both the minor and major leagues. "There are two things I always say you have to do in baseball," he said. "Adjust and readjust...
REAL CHEAP PCS It doesn't seem that long ago that a good deal on a computer meant a new PC that sold for under a grand. Now the cheapest PC practically pays for itself. The $299 Webzter Jr. desktop from Microworkz Computer Corp. packs a surprisingly powerful punch with its 300-MHz Cyrix processor, 32 megabytes of memory and 3.2-gigabyte hard drive. Like every other sub-$1,000 PC, it comes without a monitor, but it does give you one year of free Internet service from Earthlink, a $240 value...