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...woman who accused Rep. Mel Reynolds of Chicago of sexual misconduct now says she told prosecutors she was lying within days of her allegations, but that the Cook County prosecutors office pressured her into testifying against him anyway. In an interview published in today's Chicago Sun-Times, Beverly Heard said she made up the accusations because Reynolds made repeated phone calls to her house disrupting her relationship with another woman. Reynolds was charged in August with having sex with Heard while she was an underage campaign worker. During a court hearing Monday, attorney Reginald Turner, who said he represented...
Attorneys for Chicago Congressmen Mel Reynolds today demanded that sexual molestation charges against him be dropped, after a man stood up in court and announced that the charges against the two-term Democrat were bogus. The man, who identified himself as Reginald Turner, said he was an attorney for a Reynolds campaign volunteer, now aged 18, who had claimed the congressman had sex with her two years ago, when she was underage. Turner said she has now recanted her allegation. He then read a statement that he said she wrote, which states in part that she had been coached...
...Star Trek has legions of more temperate fans too. General Colin Powell is a watcher; so are Robin Williams, Mel Brooks and Stephen Hawking, the best- selling physicist (A Brief History of Time) who made a guest appearance in an episode of The Next Generation, playing poker with holographic re-creations of Albert Einstein and Sir Isaac Newton. Rachelle Chong, a member of the Federal Communications Commission, has decorated her office with Trek paraphernalia and dressed up as Captain Picard for Halloween. "I like the show because it shows me tomorrow," she says. And sometimes today: the cellular phone-like...
...wrote the original story and is the executive producer. As we know from the Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogies, he loves multilevel, multicharacter, broadly played popular fiction edited at a pace that flirts with incomprehensibility yet rigorously maintains narrative logic. Radioland, scripted by four writers and directed by Mel Smith, takes place under one roof on one night and puts this style under still greater pressure. Perhaps too much. The adventure form's spaciousness granted us breathing room, time to take things in. This comedy, dazzling as its rhythms often are, ought to give us the same kind...
...window into our national psychology. But it is, after all, a game. The lofty rhetoric of The Civil War seemed perfectly suited to the epic subject; in Baseball everything from Carl Hubbell's screwball to Mickey Mantle's bad knees is given the same sense of moment. Hard-hitting Mel Ott, we're told in portentous tones, was "so feared at the plate that he was once intentionally walked with the bases loaded." Negro League star "Cool Papa" Bell was "so fast he once scored from first on a sacrifice bunt." Chicago Cubs great Ernie Banks was "so fond...