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...boys were abducted -- pretty strange behavior, say investigators who testified today at a hearing to determine whether jurors will hear statements made by Susan Smith before she confessed on November 3 to drowning her two sons. Those statements, say prosecutors, would demonstrate Smith is both a killer and calculated liar, for which she could face the death penalty. If judged innocent by reason of insanity, Smith would be committed to a mental hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUSAN SMITH SEEMED SUSPICIOUS | 7/17/1995 | See Source »

Train wrecks are marvelously entertaining in retrospect, with a guitar accompaniment. Mary Karr's God-awful childhood in a sulfurous East Texas oil town has the same sort of calamitous appeal. Her rowdy memoir The Liars' Club (Viking; 320 pages; $22.95) takes its title from the ring-tailed bosh passed around among oil workers at the American Legion bar, where her father, the champion liar, took her when she was a tadpole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: WILD CHILD | 6/26/1995 | See Source »

approximately 50 officers from the Boston, Cambridge and Harvard police departments walked in silence holding signs which read "Dershowitz is the liar" and "Police testify to the facts...

Author: By Marios V. Broustas, | Title: Three Police Unions Protest | 6/8/1995 | See Source »

Newt Gingrich recently praised incendiary language as a key to winning elections. Use words like "liar'' and "traitor'' to attack Democrats, he said. Should anyone who values honest debate condone such advice? Is it much wonder that the unhinged can't make the distinction between mere name calling and damning opponents as the embodiment of evil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest: TIME TO STOP SHOUTING | 5/1/1995 | See Source »

Stickler's Mirkheim is hard to like. A bad liar and a slimy businessman, we despise Mirkheim but we can't help rooting him on as the closest thing to normal in a twisted world...

Author: By Joyelle H. Mcsweeney, | Title: Search and Enjoy on Landsdowne | 3/9/1995 | See Source »

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