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...pointed out that convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh was eligible to be buried in a national cemetery, since he served during the Gulf War. Under current law, only those convicted of treason, espionage or sedition can have their benefits stripped. The Senate bill would add murder to that list, and a companion bill is being readied in the House...
...involved one or more "aggravating circumstances." If blowing up a building full of people and killing and wounding hundreds of them isn't an aggravating circumstance, it is hard to imagine what would be. Nevertheless, there are certain legal requirements the government must meet. The federal death- penalty statute lists 15 possible aggravating circumstances, and the prosecution is trying to prove that four of these apply--that deaths occurred while McVeigh was committing various felonies, that he created a grave risk of death to people other than the victims, that he engaged in substantial planning and premeditation and that...
Foreign leaders are discovering that she's difficult to bully. Before meeting Slobodan Milosevic in Belgrade, her aides warned that the Serbian President would try to throw her off stride early in the session. As she began reciting a laundry list of Serbian violations of the peace accord, Milosevic did just that, interrupting with a patronizing smile: "Madame Secretary, you're not well informed." Albright, who had spent three years in Belgrade as a child, retorted, "Don't tell me I'm uninformed. I lived here." Milosevic's smile disappeared...
...time: the early '90s, when it again became permissible for people to discuss gender difference. For this, thanks must be given to Georgetown University linguistics professor Deborah Tannen's groundbreaking You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation, which perched on the New York Times best-seller list for close to two years before Mars and Venus came out (and for two years after...
...wanted to add to his Idaho book a bit of last-minute material on the press coverage of the trial--so he had got the registry of press credentials granted (more than three-quarters of a century ago) and assembled a file on every person on the list. This was a man whose book was finished and who was at an age when most journalists have settled into the study to write their memoirs...