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Christina Marie Riggs, a nurse in Arkansas and a single mother, killed her two children - Justin, 5, and Shelby Alexis, 2 - by giving them injections of potassium chloride and then smothering them with a pillow. She wrote a suicide note, and apparently tried to kill herself with an overdose of 28 antidepressant tablets. She survived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why I Changed My Mind on the Death Penalty | 5/3/2000 | See Source »

Finally she had enough of parachuting in. When a last attempt to negotiate a significant BGEA role failed two years ago, she says, "I cried into my pillow and said, 'Lord, if you've given me this burden and this vision, you've got to show me how to do it. If not, withdraw the gift.'" Soon after, she says, she began hearing from broad coalitions of churches in various cities willing to share the cost of her mini-Crusade. Billy has sent out a letter commending the tour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Preacher's Daughter | 5/1/2000 | See Source »

...What? A fight?" as if he could hop into the ring at that moment. Soon the candidate came up with the first line he would use with Russert. "I've crashed a couple of planes and slept in a hotel where they don't leave a mint on the pillow," he said to aides who could almost hear the sound track beginning to play. "Losing South Carolina is like a day at the beach." When he walked out of the room, McCain was on the balls of his feet. "He's not going to take it away from me like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: On The Wild Ride | 3/6/2000 | See Source »

...front porch. Then she called reporters with a plea for young mothers to bring their babies to her. I'll take it from there, she promised. Nobody has taken up her offer yet, but still she waits. "It's a strange feeling when you lay your head on the pillow at night," she says. "Kind of spooky." With only a manual typewriter and a fax machine, she turned her Baskets for Babies program into a public-awareness campaign for young moms who think they have nowhere to turn. Now when night falls on Pittsburgh, 608 families leave their porch lights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Refuge For Throwaways | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

...prince who carries his own pillow as a defense against cheap hotel linen and an army of retainers as a defense against anyone who might try to storm the castle, it can take a little time to get used to being tossed into the moat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McCain's Moment | 2/14/2000 | See Source »

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