Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When a story of the crime lodges in the headlines, the myths have a way of cluttering the search for the truth. The tale of Good Friday in Palm Beach landed in the news because it involved a Kennedy, but it may end up as a watershed case, because all the mysteries and passions surrounding date rape are here to be dissected. William Kennedy Smith met a woman at a bar, invited her back home late at night and apparently had sex with her on the lawn. She says it was rape, and the police believed her story enough...
...mist can be as deadly as it is ugly. It coats the leaves of palm trees, starving them for sunlight, and so they shrivel. It falls on the surface of the Persian Gulf, already assaulted by oil spills and acid rain, posing a further threat to the phytoplankton that is the base food supply for the region's abundant fisheries. And it enters the air passages and lungs of all breathing creatures. Kuwaitis who have seen the blackened lungs of slaughtered animals and watched livestock and wildlife sicken and die can only wonder what effect the ubiquitous mist is having...
This strategy was so successful that Senator Edward Kennedy managed to keep his seat in Congress and even run a plausible campaign for the presidency after Chappaquiddick. The Kennedy approach is at work again in the investigation by Palm Beach police into charges that William Kennedy Smith raped a young woman on the grounds of the Kennedy estate during Easter weekend...
...actions were reckless and irresponsible. It was Kennedy who roused his son and nephew from a sound sleep on Good Friday night to ask, according to the Senator's own deposition, "if they wanted to have a couple of beers." The three men then set out for Au Bar, Palm Beach's hottest club, thus setting in motion the chain of events that ended with the alleged rape. There they met the 29-year-old woman who later accused Smith, and Michele Cassone...
...blunders: for example, a water purification plant and a medical dispensary," she says. With Iraqi censorship lifted early this month, Marlowe was free to travel throughout the country. She found striking scenes: women in black robes carrying groceries through miles of rubble, a rusting merchant navy docked next to palm groves. Some of her experiences bordered on the surreal. In the southeastern city of Kut, the provincial governor handed her a white album filled with photographs of allied bomb damage. "The album's cover was embossed with letters that said, in English, MEMORY OF WEDDING...