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...label of "trial of the century," Ogletree expressed skepticism, preferring instead to save that title for the famed Lindbergh kidnapping case. He recognized, however, the parallel between the two affairs...
...post. The Right Rev. David Hope, the bishop of London, last month disclosed he had come under pressure from Outrage!, a group that encourages homosexuals to publicly declare their sexual orientation. He insisted he has lived a celibate life, as Christian teaching requires of the unmarried, and declined to label himself as either heterosexual or homosexual. Ironically,TIME religion writer Richard Ostlingreports, the promotion is no gay lib step, but a sop to traditionalists: Hope is an "Anglo-Catholic" who opposed a historic bill that allows women priests...
...Inexplicable," or inspiegabile, is the happy label that Di Ruberto, the doctors and several other clerics in the Vatican's "medical conference" give to a case if it survives their scrutiny. It then passes to a panel of theologians, who must determine whether the inexplicable resulted from prayer. If so, the miracle is usually approved by a caucus of Cardinals and the Pope...
Dukakis's struggle for self-definition during the campaign--dodging the "liberal" label left and right--prefigured the fall of death-penalty opposition from the liberal canon. Capital punishment used to be a defining issue in politics, the way abortion continues to be; rather than separating liberals from conservatives, it defines whether one is "tough on crime," something no current politician can afford...
...seven states. TIME New York correspondent Adam Cohen says the new standards are "very un-Reno-like," most likely fueled by White House pressure to appear tough on crime. Reno's proposed regulations would require more than 10 years of registration by those offenders designated sexually violent predators, a label ex-cons could challenge in court...