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However, prosecutors argued that Sharpe’s murder of his 44-year-old wife Karen was a calculated and planned response to his wife’s refusal to hand over $3 million she had received as part of their divorce settlement. They argued that Sharpe had made efforts to disguise his premeditation and that he later faked symptoms of mental illness to impress psychiatrists and the jury...

Author: By Benjamin J. Toff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Former HMS Professor Convicted | 11/29/2001 | See Source »

...Part 3: Worlds Apart Karen Armstrong, "Islam: A Short History...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The People of the Book | 11/27/2001 | See Source »

There's a phrase in the Quran, ahl al-kitab, - which roughly translates as "The People of the Book" or "people of an earlier revelation" - that refers to Jews and Christians as people, like Muslims, who belong to a faith that is rooted in a sacred text. Karen Armstrong, in her recent tome "Islam: A Short History," quotes a line from the Quran that reads "Do not argue with the followers of an earlier revelation otherwise than in a most kindly manner..." It's a gentle, nonconfrontational passage that contrasts sharply with the uncompromising rhetoric many Westerners associate with fundamentalist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The People of the Book | 11/27/2001 | See Source »

...when Karen Mok says "So what?" she sounds to the manor born. In one marvelous moment in Young and Dangerous 3, she gets hit by a car while rollerblading down a busy street. As four hip Hong Kong lads clamber out of the car to check if she's O.K., Mok adjusts herself, stands back up on the blades and calls them "a bunch of f____ing d___heads." They stare gormlessly at the Chinese beauty who stands before them delivering a beautifully intonated insult?in English. It's a scene that defines Mok, soign? with plenty of street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mok-A-Bye Baby | 11/26/2001 | See Source »

Wiley’s wife, Karen Valgeirsdottir, has said that she thinks his disappearance was unrelated to his work since most of it was freely available...

Author: By Ravi Agrawal, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Colleagues: Wiley Unlikely Target For Bioterrorists | 11/26/2001 | See Source »

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