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...into believing he killed Morgan. They needed less than five hours to find Pancoast guilty. Next week the same jurors will consider a second Pancoast plea, of not guilty for reasons of insanity. If found insane, Pancoast will be sent to a mental hospital. If not, he faces a maximum sentence of life imprisonment...
...Federal Express, which pioneered next-day private postal service, is now promising even greater speed. Last week the Memphis-based company launched ZapMail, its long-awaited version of electronic mail. For as little as $25 for a missive of five pages or less and up to $50 for a maximum of 20 pages, Federal Express will zap letters and documents across the U.S. within two hours...
...sort of narrow spirit that got the tour into such hot water with the public in the first place. Yes, $30 was too much for a rafter seat so high in the stadium that you could be buzzed by low-flying aircraft; and yes, the four-ticket minimum-maximum and the computer-sorted coupons were painfully unwieldy. But they were a plausible means of attempting to cut out scalpers. "We were trying to protect our fans," insists Marlon. Says Randy: "We wanted to have everybody have a fair chance - to see the show without paying hundreds of dollars a ticket...
...federal levy on telephone bills and present tax rates on inheritances, gifts and "windfall" oil discoveries will all be kept for at least three more years. Under old law, beginning in 1985 savers would not have been taxed on 15% of their net interest income up to a maximum of $450. Now they will lose that break. On the whole, says one Administration official, the bill "is not so much a tax increase as an averting of tax losses...
...most infamous was Moral Reasoning 21 taught in spring 1982, which Visiting Philosophy Professor Ronald Dworkin taught as a discussion course before 800 people in Sanders Theater. Another was Literature and Arts B-16, which in the spring of 1983 drew 600 students to a 400 maximum course. Flip-flops in the admissions policy, with lotteries cancelled as fast as they were created, caused mass confusion up until the study card deadline...