Word: mcdermott
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After the murder, Marks ran off to the U.S. with James McDermott, a manservant also accused in the crime. They were caught almost immediately, brought back to Toronto and tried and convicted of Kinnear's stabbing. McDermott was sentenced to death, hanged and cut into quarters. Marks' case seemed less clear. She claimed to have fallen unconscious for part of the period of the killing and to have no memory of the rest. Her sentence was commuted to life in prison...
There, eight years later, novelist Atwood takes up her story. Early in her stay Marks had panicked at the sight of a doctor--the same one, she concluded, who had dissected McDermott--and screamed uncontrollably. She was removed to an insane asylum--"mad as a snake," it was said--and subjected to a regime of cold baths and strait waistcoats. She endured this and was returned to the prison. Staying sane here, she says to herself, is like hanging over the edge of a bridge: you aren't moving anywhere, but it takes all your energy. A young doctor visits...
...MCDERMOTT (D) District...
...member of the Standards of Official Conduct Committee, McDermott was a leader of the House investigation into the propriety of Newt Gingrich's multimillion-dollar book deal. One of the most liberal Representatives, he voted against this summer's welfare-reform bill and last year offered a Democratic alternative to the G.O.P.'s proposal to reduce planned Medicare spending by $270 billion. In liberal Seattle, he remains a favorite to repeat...
...Tutsi. These children were murdered by monsters every bit as scary as the psychotic who killed the Dunblane children. But because there are no smiling school portraits of them to tug at our heartstrings, because they die in places far from Western attention, they die unmourned and unnoticed. KRISTEN MCDERMOTT Norcross, Georgia...