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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will be up to a new jury to decide whether George was guilty of criminal perjury. Steven Kirk, the original foreman, said his fellow jurors had found George evasive, duplicitous and dissembling; they could not agree on conviction because they chose to wrestle with the narrow issue of George's "technical" responsibility to Congress. But Gillen used expert testimony and thousands of newly declassified documents to prove his point: that key officials of the CIA had blindly served the White House in circumventing Congress by providing aid to the Nicaraguan contras in defiance of the Boland amendment. Concedes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Legacy of Contempt | 9/21/1992 | See Source »

Three times the jury deliberating the Iran-contra perjury trial of former CIA spy chief Clair George trooped into the courtroom to report an impasse, and three times Judge Royce Lamberth sent them back out to keep trying. Finally, after almost six days of fruitless deliberation, foreman Steven Kirk said his panel was totally deadlocked on all nine counts -- from perjury to giving false statements to Congress. "As a citizen," said Kirk, a Washington consultant, "I expect senior government officials like Clair George to be more forthcoming to Congress. As a juror, I felt compelled to give him the benefit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hung Out to Try Again | 9/7/1992 | See Source »

This ought to guarantee a livelihood to untold numbers of lawyers: Thomas Kirk, an Orlando circuit-court judge, says an 11-year-old boy can sue to "divorce" his parents. Kirk ruled that "Gregory K." can seek to sever all legal ties with his natural parents so that he can be adopted by a family with whom he has been living for nine months. Gregory's lawyers claimed that he was abused by his natural parents. Children's rights advocates hailed the novel decision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Juvenile Divorce Court | 7/20/1992 | See Source »

directed by Kirk Williams...

Author: By Carolyn B. Rendell, | Title: Banquo Meets Brando In Innovative Macbeth | 5/1/1992 | See Source »

Excitement fills the Kirkland House stage as Kirk Williams' innovative production of Macbeth delivers with sparkling vitality...

Author: By Carolyn B. Rendell, | Title: Banquo Meets Brando In Innovative Macbeth | 5/1/1992 | See Source »

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