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...force and clarity with which Littell renders the physical realities of war and mass murder are simply astounding. His battlefields are the chaotic, deconstructed battlefields of Tolstoy and Stendhal. As for the genocide ... I have searched in vain for a passage I feel comfortable quoting. Suffice it to say that his descriptions of the most extreme forms of human suffering are explicit and precise. This book is not for the squeamish, and if you're not squeamish, it will make you squeamish...
...Olson - who formally changed her name in 1999 - pleaded guilty to both crimes, and was sentenced to 14 years in prison for attempted murder in connection with the pipe bomb incident. In 2008, she was briefly released when California's parole board miscalculated her parole eligibility; Olson spent five days with her family before being returned to prison. Her impending release this week also sparked a kerfuffle, with Minnesota officials - including Governor Tim Pawlenty - petitioning California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to force Olson to serve her parole in California, the state in which she committed her crimes. Those requests were denied...
...were young and foolish. We felt we were committing an idealized, ideological action to obtain government-insured money and that we were not stealing from ordinary people. In the end, we stole someone's life." -Apologizing during a 2002 court appearance in which she pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the death of Myrna Opsahl, who was killed during a 1975 bank robbery. (AP, March...
...working for the Sygma photo agency, rushed to the scene in the center of historic Rome, on the Via Michelangelo Caetani, when the body of Aldo Moro was found in the trunk of a Renault, looking as if he were asleep but the victim of a cruel murder. The five time premier of Italy had been kidnapped by the radicals of the Red Brigade and, after 54 days in captivity, executed with 11 gunshots to his heart. Moro had been playing a pivotal mediating role between Italy's Left and Right at a time of great tension between Moscow...
...After initially pleading not guilty on some of the charges, Fritzl on Wednesday changed his plea to guilty on all charges - among them rape, incest, enslavement and murder. He is accused of imprisoning his daughter from age 18 in a tiny, windowless, unheated, rat-infested basement that reeked of mold and lacked warm water, and repeatedly raping her in front of their children, three of whom had never seen the light of day. The murder charge arose from the death shortly after birth of one of the seven children he fathered with his daughter. The ailing baby was not allowed...